Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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