No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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 universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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