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.
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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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