The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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