Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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