I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dance in the body you have.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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