Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLEDancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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