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.
AGNES DE MILLEgreat artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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