When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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