We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
AGNES DE MILLEBallet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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