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.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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To 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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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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