Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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Emily 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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