Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEThe acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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