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
artist next form
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.
dance giving modern
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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 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.
life faith creativity
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. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
inspirational life yoga
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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 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.
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.
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.