Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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