Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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