Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLEWhat have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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 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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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