Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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