The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
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They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble – all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure!
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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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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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Dance in the body you have.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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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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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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