Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLESo that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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 trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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