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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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Face Include Ourselves Silence Stand Thinking Thought
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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Bodies Dance Dancer Floor Journey Lie Lying Mind Mysterious Universe
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Air Dance Everything Idea Intent Jump Remember Rise Wing
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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Assumed Dancer Girl Head House People Spoo Visit
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dancer Giving Hypnosis Modern Our Self Sinister Time
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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Choreographer Dance Despised Dishonoured Doctor Girl Hummingbird Lawyer Running Tell Trade
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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Correction Dance Fault Mirror Practice Used
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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Curiosity Farther Greed Hurried Keep Missing Our Pressing Upbeat
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Cutting Fearfully Free Good Head Heart Something Strengthening Tie
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Cracked Down Kiss Kissing Learned Love Open Romantic Simplest World
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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Dance Idea Needed Pot Privacy Space Tea Walking
I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Care Correct Fail Matter More Ought Some Take Think
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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Afraid Agonizing Always Aponizing Counrry Country Forgotten People Pining Quite Right Theatre
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Ballet Become Dance Easy Possible Technique
I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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Bearable Difference Fatigue Fear Night Sleep Unbearable
One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Fate Good People Recognition Some Something Thing Thinking
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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Attention Dance Dancing Folk Listen Look Nation Pay Politician Song Understand
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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Coin Current Did Knew Usage Want Well Worn
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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Artist Being Entirely Form Know Next Show Sure
I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Absorbed Choose Completely Music Respond Step
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Earth Feet Indian Man Talk White
Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance Dancer Made Passion Technique
The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Acrobat Area Dancer Invisible Lost Muscle Projected Web
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Audience Dance Meditating Performing Rather Step
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Ballet Better Calf Calve Dance Education Good Harmful Head Usually
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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Dance Energy Exhausting Feet Geographic Happen Hour Process REquired Roughly Simultaneously Tennis Winning Work Writing
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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Arabesque Door Leg Leverage Lifted Mechanical Raised Same Trap Way Wing

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