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 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.
greed missing curiosity
Ours is an upbeat, a hurried, hasty beat. It keeps pressing us to go farther, to include everything so that we can savor everything, so that we can know everything, so that we will miss nothing. Partly it's greed, but mainly its curiosity. We just want to experience it. And we do.
dance giving modern
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
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.
america people agonizing
Theater people are always pining and agonizing because they're afraid that they'll be forgotten. And in America they're quite right. They will be.
dance dancing attention
Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
dance lying journey
The universe lies before you on the floor, in the air, in the mysterious bodies of your dancers, in your mind. From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
dance song attention
If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
enemy thank-god dies
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies.
thinking silence faces
We can't stand the silence because silence includes thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.
heart cutting ties
There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.
hypnosis self giving
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.
dance play
Dance constitutes a true recapturing of... freedom and childish play.
body
Dance in the body you have.