A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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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. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.Agnes de Mille
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Agnes de Mille
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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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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The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
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When you perform ... you are out of yourselflarger and more potent, more beautiful. You are for minutes heroic. This is power. This is glory on earth. And it is yours nightly.
Agnes de Mille
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