Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for 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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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