This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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