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.
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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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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