Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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