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.
AGNES DE MILLEEmily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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