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.
hero heroines my-hero
My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
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.
passion creative energy
Find the passion. It takes great passion and great energy to do anything creative. I would go so far as to say you can't do it without that passion.
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.
artist whole-life findings
Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.
passion dancer technique
Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.
inspirational college thinking
I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
kissing world down-and
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
dance passion ballet
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
artist decision coins
great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.
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.