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.
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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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