Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
AGNES DE MILLEModern 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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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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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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I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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