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Dance Quotes by Agnes De
Mille
”The truest expression of a
people is in its dance and in its
music.
Bodies never lie.”
“To dance is to be yourself.
Larger, more beautiful, more
powerful.
This is power on earth and it
is yours for the
taking.”
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“Ballet technique is
arbitrary and very
difficult.
It never becomes
easy--it becomes
possible."
”The artist never
entirely knows. We
guess.
We may be wrong, but we
take leap after leap in the dark.”
“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.”
”Dance constitutes a
true recapturing
of...
freedom and childish play.”
”Modern dancers give a
sinister portent about our times.”
”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.”
“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.”
“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.”
”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.”
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