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.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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