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.
AGNES DE MILLETheater 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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
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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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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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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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