If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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