When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLEWhen I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLESo 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.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLEDancers 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.
AGNES DE MILLEWho am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEI learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs 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.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
AGNES DE MILLEIn the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEDestiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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