The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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 have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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 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 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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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