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.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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 induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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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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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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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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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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