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.
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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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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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