Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
AGNES DE MILLEThe creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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.
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