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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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