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.
AGNES DE MILLEDancing 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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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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 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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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