I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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