This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Dancing 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.
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