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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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