Blood Memory
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“...a dancer dies twice—once when they stop dancing, and this first death is the more painful.”
“Great dancers are not great because of thei technique. They are great because of their passion.”
“It takes at least five years of rigorous training to be spontaneous.”
“Nothing is more revealing than movement. The body says what words cannot.”
“To me, the body says what words cannot. I believe that dance was the first art.”
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“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”
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“'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.”
“Censorship is the height of vanity.”
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“Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.”
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“The body is a sacred garment.”
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“The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.”
“Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.”
“The gesture is the thing truly expressive of the individual - as we think so will we act.”
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“Stand up! Keep your backs straight! Remember that this is where the wings grow.”
“No animal ever has an ugly body until it is domesticated. It is the same with the human body.”
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“There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.”
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“I want to make people feel intensely alive. I'd rather have them against me than indifferent.”
“The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.”