Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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!
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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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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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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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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