Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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