I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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