Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLEThe truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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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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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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