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.
AGNES DE MILLEBut 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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs 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.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers 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.
AGNES DE MILLESo that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
AGNES DE MILLETo make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLEFind 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.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEDancing 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.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLENo trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLELiving 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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