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.
AGNES DE MILLEWhat they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
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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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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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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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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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Dance in the body you have.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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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.
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