I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
AGNES DE MILLEWe 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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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