Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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