To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLEThe artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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