Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLESo that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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