Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
AGNES DE MILLENo white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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