Quotes about american-dancer
american-dancer believe cry thinking
When we were first together, he said, Nobody's ever called me Darling. I said, I can't believe that - I could just cry thinking about it. Annette O'Toole
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Aside from a few master teachers that we have had over the years, this has been a completely local talent development. But people have started to come now from Chicago, we have a number of students from Chicago and different places of the country and even in the world. Katherine Dunham
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You know, this isn't theatre like it used to be.
american-dancer education family grow influence knew older parents practiced prejudice racial realized town
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.
american-dancer company considered greatest maybe number paris success three
We had maybe the greatest success of any company that I know of in Paris, and after two or three years I wanted to do this same number that we did for PBS, so we did it and Paris had always considered us their darlings.
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The only bad thing is that Smallville is shot in Vancouver, and Michael and I live in L.A. So sometimes I feel like a Ping-Pong ball.
american-dancer time
Time is running out to permeate the piece. Tommy Tune
american-dancer great
I would just stand there puzzled, then realize this would be a great place to make a show.
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Because I like to pick up where I left off and continue from there.
american-dancer fifteen
I've had this reoccurring dream for the last ten to fifteen years.
american-dancer brought loved potential whom
It brought out in me the person whom I had the potential to become. I think that's why I loved it for its own sake, not to be a ballerina. Suzanne Farrell
american-dancer contribute mind people privilege remember
I wouldn't mind even if it's the only thing people remember me for. It was a privilege just to be there and to contribute to something so wonderful. George Chakiris
american-dancer entirely
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark. Agnes de Mille
american-dancer people
Nothing personal; I just don't have people over. Alvin Ailey
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No matter what you write or choreograph, you feel it's not enough.
american-dancer life
In this business, life is one long fund-raising effort.
american-dancer cared critics liked love presented west
I was in love with the West Indies and I liked the authenticity with which Trinidad was presented but the critics could have cared less.
american-dancer closed far system
I'm not after a closed system, I mean I'm after a complicated system in structure, but as far as watching it, I don't think that everything should be decided. Mark Morris
american-dancer hopefully melodies pick works
By the end of it, you never know how it's going to turn out. Hopefully if I pick the right songs and put the right melodies on it and all the collaboration works out. it's a win-win situation. Paul Taylor
american-dancer people
People do not live nowadays. They get about 10% out of life. Isadora Duncan
american-dancer art becoming defend far form land people similar
Perhaps... I mean there are people who defend that it as an art. I don't. I like it but it's not an art form as far as I'm concerned, and yet it's a similar thing, once you can't land those jumps, you're disqualified - that precludes it from ever becoming a serious art form.
american-dancer art badly eventually loathe twentieth works
That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century.
american-dancer aware life react wonderful
The wonderful thing about life it that there will always be variables. You have to see them and be aware of them to know how to react to them.
american-dancer dance hidden language
Dance is the hidden language of the soul. Martha Graham
american-dancer anyone library minority program small start terms
I'd say that anyone who is going to start a minority program to try to think in terms of a big library and some small kind of museum.
american-dancer dance eventually learned love opposed wanting
And I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.
american-dancer eyes front life lights message void
When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.