Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEWho 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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Dance in the body you have.
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