Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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