great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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