We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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