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.
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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Dance in the body you have.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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