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.
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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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 artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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