We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEFrom this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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