Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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 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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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