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.
AGNES DE MILLETo make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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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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