What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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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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