A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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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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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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dancers don’t get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
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Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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