What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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