In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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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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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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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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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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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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.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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