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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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