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.
AGNES DE MILLEMany other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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