Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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