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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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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