Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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