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Quotes by Dancer
"Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work."
4
"Creative Artists Agency put together a project of extraordinary mediocrity and colossal stupidity. Otherwise, it was great."
4
"It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer."
4
"I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea."
4
"Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable."
4
"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work."
4
"On the other hand in London you can get an audience that desires dance to go as far as it can go: they've seen the bricks of ideas built over a period so therefore there is an acceptance of what otherwise might seem out on a limb."
4
"Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes."
4
"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."
3
"I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people."
3
"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater."
3
"Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other."
3
"There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent."
3
"One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody."
3
"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"
3
"People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!"
3
"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
3
"She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity."
3
"But I also wanted to give them an intelligent emotional journey, without having to suspend reality - to be able to look at those characters and see reasons for the relationships and why what happens happens."
3
"My company is known for being funny as well as moving. You get a bit of everything in these shows. I think people know they're going to have a surprising experience."
3
"So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don't you will die inside as a person."
3
"The older I grow the more I see the influence of my family on my life. I didn't always see it. It was up to our parents to see that we had our education in a town that hadn't yet realized what racial prejudice was but actually knew and practiced it on occasion."
3
"I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read."
3
"I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people."
3
"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."
3
"If I only made dances about my own experience in dance, it would always be on my track, and I don't want that, I want to be on the track of where dance can take me."
3
"On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life."
3
"I don't think Ed Sullivan had anything to do with Carib Song."
3
"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around."
3
"I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest."
3
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