Dance in the body you have.
AGNES DE MILLEI 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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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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