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.
AGNES DE MILLEThen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
-
-
Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLE -
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
AGNES DE MILLE -
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLE -
So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
AGNES DE MILLE -
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLE






