In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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