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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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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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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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