Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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 includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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