Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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 acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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