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 MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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