Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLEOne of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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