Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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 have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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