What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
AGNES DE MILLEThen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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