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.
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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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 universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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