Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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So 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.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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