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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dancer Giving Hypnosis Modern Our Self Sinister Time
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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Attention Dance Dancing Folk Listen Look Nation Pay Politician Song Understand
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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