We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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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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Dancing 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.
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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 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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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