The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLEThe acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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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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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