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.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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 induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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Dance in the body you have.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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