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Quotes by Dancer
"I'd like to make a movie pretty soon, so I could get a rest."
"I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company."
"I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form."
"I think the Olympics could help us reach more people."
"I mean, I think in the early days we were pretty... pretty British in our entertainment leads."
"I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them."
"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."
"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."
"I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful."
Love,
"I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something."
"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."
"Usually that's going into biology in a certain way. There's certain strengths and weaknesses to both of the sexes. And I'm not against employing those nor am I against denying those, what I am looking for is a very large array of options."
"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."
"A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head."
"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little."
"I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers."
"She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity."
"Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it."
"Friday night is our date night. We really carve out time for each other."
"I know there are going to be big challenges financially, but I'm excited artistically. I think that if the experience is better artistically, then we have more hope in the future."
"I want to leave this company in the best possible shape."
"We can go on talking about racism and who treated whom badly, but what are you going to do about it? Are you going to wallow in that or are you going to create your own agenda?"
"I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer's body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of the miracle that is a human being."
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