Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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