Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
AGNES DE MILLETo make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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