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.
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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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