What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLEWe can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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