No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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