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.
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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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