Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
AGNES DE MILLEOne of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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