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”The truest expression of a
people
is in its dance and in its
music.
Bodies never lie.”
- Agnes de Mille
“Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult.
It never becomes easy--it becomes possible.
- Agnes de Mille
”The artist never entirely knows. We guess.
We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”
- Agnes de Mille
“But remember that intent is everything.
One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque
becomes a wing,
and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
This is the precise difference between dancing and
acrobatics.
The dancer tries to express something;
the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles
the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.”
- Agnes de Mille
”Dance constitutes a true recapturing of...
freedom and childish play.”
- Agnes de Mille
”Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.”
- Agnes de Mille
”When you perform you are out of your self
larger and more potent, more beautiful.
You are for minutes heroic.
This is power.
This is is glory on earth.
And it is yours for the taking.”
- Agnes de Mille
“The effort involved in making a dancer's body
is so long and relentless, in many instances painful,
the effort to maintain the technique so grueling
that unless a certain satisfaction is derived
from the disciplining and the punishing,
the pace could not be maintained.”
- Agnes de Mille
“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
”When I dance I am really meditating
rather then performing for an audience.
I am completely absorbed by the music
and the steps I choose to respond to the music.”
- Agnes de Mille
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