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.
AGNES DE MILLEToe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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 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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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