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.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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