The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their 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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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