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.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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.
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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.
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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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