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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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 induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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