Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
AGNES DE MILLEFriends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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