The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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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Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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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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Living 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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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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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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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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Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
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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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Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how… The artists never entirely knows.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
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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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I 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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