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.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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