Destiny is made known silently.
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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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