Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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