I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEThe truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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