But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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