To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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 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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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