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.
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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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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.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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