We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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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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