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.
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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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