I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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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 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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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