Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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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 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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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