Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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