Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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 have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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