One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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 have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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