The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
AGNES DE MILLEThe artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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