Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
AGNES DE MILLEIn 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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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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