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.
AGNES DE MILLEI studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for 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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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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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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