We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs 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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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