Agnes de Mille Quotes

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.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

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.

Destiny is made known silently.

What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without?

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I’d like to know.

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.