Destiny is made known silently.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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