Dance in the body you have.
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
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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 universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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