Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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 choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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 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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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