My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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