This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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