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.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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 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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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