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
dance giving modern
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
dance play
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
dance writing winning
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.
dance steps performing
When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
dance practice mirrors
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.
artist next form
Living is a form of not being sure, not know what next or how... The artists never entirely knows.
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.
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.
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.
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.
dance passion ballet
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.