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.
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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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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 have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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