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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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