Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLEWhat I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance in the body you have.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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