So that we will miss nothing. Partly it’s greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don’t even look at one another.
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people
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Destiny is made known silently.
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But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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