Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLESo 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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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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