No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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