Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
AGNES DE MILLEDance in the body you have.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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