So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLEOurs 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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they’re afraid that they’ll be forgotten. And in America they’re quite right. They will be.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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