Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEThis 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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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