What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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