When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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