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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.

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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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