Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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