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.
AGNES DE MILLEI am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Dance in the body you have.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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 want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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