No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
AGNES DE MILLEBut 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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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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