To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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Dance in the body you have.
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he’ll look at you as if you were a hummingbird.
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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.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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.
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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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