I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
AGNES DE MILLEA good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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