Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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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Ours 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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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Dance in the body you have.
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