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.
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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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 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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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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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.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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