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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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.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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