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.
AGNES DE MILLEFind 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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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 trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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