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.
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.
More Agnes de Mille Quotes
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Dancers aren’t made of their technique, but their passion.
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs – don’t pay any attention to its politicians.
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Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
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What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?
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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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