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
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.
fate thinking people
One of the good things about my having some recognition is that I can do something for the people I think ought to have more and correct some of the matters fate fails to take care of.
thinking silence faces
We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
believe thinking color
What have we got here in America that we believe we cannot live without? We have the most varied and imaginative bathrooms in the world, we have kitchens with the most gimmicks, we have houses with every possible electrical gadget to save ourselves all kinds of trouble - all so that we can have leisure. Leisure, leisure, leisure! So that we don't go mad in the leisure, we have color TV. So that there will never, never, be a moment of silence, we have radio and Muzak. We can't stand silence, because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
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.
kissing world down-and
Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.