What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
AGNES DE MILLE
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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