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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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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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