Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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