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.
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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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