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.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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