This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down… and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
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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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No white man uses his feet the way an Indian does. He talks to the earth.
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Dance in the body you have.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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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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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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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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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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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 think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
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