I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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