The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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I had had to learn the difference between the bearable fatigue and the unbearable, the fatigue of fear. The first can be cured by a night’s sleep; the second kills.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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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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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dance in the body you have.
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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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