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Quote by Mason Cooley

“Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.”

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Mason Cooley was an enigmatic writer and critic whose works spanned a wide range of subjects, including philosophy, literature, and everyday life. Known for his concise, profound, and humorous style, he was greatly admired by readers. more

“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.”

Way Trying Doe Ideas Remember Lost Differences Doors Air Raises Wings Dancing Dance Raised Legs Invisible Lifts Muscles Dancer Traps Precise Grind Acrobatics

Author:Agnes de Mille

“Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.”

Play Dance

Author:Agnes de Mille

“Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.”

Giving Modern Dance Our Time Dancer Sinister Portents

Author:Agnes de Mille

“The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.”

Should Used Watches Practice Figures Mirrors Faults Dance Affair Love Affair Corrections Dearest Friend

Author:Agnes de Mille

“It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.”

Steps Europe Fundamentals Dance Western Folks Western Europe

Author:Ninette de Valois

“Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.”

Firsts Character Dance Dancer Good Character

Author:Ninette de Valois

“First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.”

Firsts Important Past Watches Learning Dance Careful Survived Surviving Choreographers Learn From The Past

Author:Ninette de Valois

“Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.”

Firsts Done Difficulty Dance Arise

Author:Ninette de Valois

“We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.”

Giving Attention Wonderful Dance Partners Developing

Author:Ninette de Valois

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