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.
AGNES DE MILLEThe universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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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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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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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