Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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