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 MILLELiving is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.
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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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We can’t stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can’t do it without that passion.
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great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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Dance in the body you have.
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I want one word on my tombstone – dancer.
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There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
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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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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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