To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLEThe 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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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