I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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 they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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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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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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