To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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 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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