A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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