No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes.
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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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Destiny is made known silently.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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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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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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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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I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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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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But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
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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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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience.
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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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