In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
-
-
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
AGNES DE MILLE -
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
AGNES DE MILLE -
No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLE -
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
AGNES DE MILLE -
What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
AGNES DE MILLE -
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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 MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE -
From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
AGNES DE MILLE -
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
AGNES DE MILLE -
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.
AGNES DE MILLE






