So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLEThe universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Dance in the body you have.
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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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