A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I 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.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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