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.
AGNES DE MILLEWho am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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