In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLETo 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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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 learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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