Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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 am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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