Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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