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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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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