A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
– Agnes de Mille
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times.
– Agnes de Mille
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.
– Agnes de Mille
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
– Agnes de Mille
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.
– Agnes de Mille
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.
– Agnes de Mille
Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how…We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.