I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.
AGNES DE MILLEI 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 truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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.
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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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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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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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The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind.
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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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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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Tolstoi’s scripts are almost indecipherable.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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Dance in the body you have.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
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