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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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