I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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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.
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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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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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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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