Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLEMy heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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In 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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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