I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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.
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