Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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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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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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