But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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 had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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