Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLEDancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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