Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their 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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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.
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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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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 acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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