No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers 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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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