The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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