Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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.
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