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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Attention Dance Dancing Folk Listen Look Nation Pay Politician Song Understand
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Attention Dance Dancing Dantuy Toe
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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Cutting Fearfully Free Good Head Heart Something Strengthening Tie
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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