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"I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell."
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"Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness."
"My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
"From the port of ideas, not only the most clever ones put out to sea and conquer the world but also the most stupid ones do this!"
"In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring!"
"To move the earth like Archimedes, one needs not a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it. There is an easier way: Give a genius a beautiful remote house in a green valley where he can think calmly, and he shall move the earth with ideas!"
"Through your ideas, you open the window of your mind and say a hello to the world."
"I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything."
"Ideas are the invisible Gods of our universe!"
"And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity."
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"Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year."
"What we do now is to be valued - but we need to do more, so that it's more exciting to other people, and therefore that excitement shines back on us and we're able to have the energy to do more, to widen our creativity."
"The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas."
"The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made."
"It's not just for its influence on us, but to know that we can play a part in it, to understand the influence that we have outside our own existence."
"Then I came in twice a week - for my own enjoyment as well as to be a guide. And then we started to apply some of the splinters of the ideas back into the piece."
"One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline."
"Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning."
"Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water."
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