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.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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 studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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