The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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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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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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