A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLETolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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