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.
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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