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.
AGNES DE MILLEFind 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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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