But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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 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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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