Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
AGNES DE MILLEThen I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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