Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEThe practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Dance in the body you have.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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