No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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