The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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