When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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