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.
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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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