The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
AGNES DE MILLEThey 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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Living 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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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