Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Dance in the body you have.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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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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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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