Agnes de Mille
Agnes de Mille
Agnes George de Millewas an American dancer and choreographer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth18 September 1905
CountryUnited States of America
american-dancer entirely
The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
girl dance running
Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
dance women lying
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
dance ballet technique
Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
dance air doors
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.
passion dancer technique
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
dance passion ballet
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
inspirational beautiful dance
To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
dance ideas space
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
dance giving modern
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
dance dancing attention
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
dance lying journey
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
dance song attention
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
dance play
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.