Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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