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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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