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 MILLEWhat have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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