The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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