No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
AGNES DE MILLEModern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything.
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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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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So that we don’t go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak.
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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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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.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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