Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
AGNES DE MILLEBut remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
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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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