The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLE
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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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