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 MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Find 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.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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