The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLEThe truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEOne of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
AGNES DE MILLEDancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
AGNES DE MILLEI want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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.
AGNES DE MILLEThere is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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.
AGNES DE MILLEWho am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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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