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.
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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My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.
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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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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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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made.
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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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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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From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
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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 creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.
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Destiny is made known silently.
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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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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Dance constitutes a true recapturing of… freedom and childish play.
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The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
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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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