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.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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