The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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