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.
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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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.
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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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