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.
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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Destiny is made known silently.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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