This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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