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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Give
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was told that I had to give grades to the students, which I wasn't particularly interested in doing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.
- Isolation
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- Nov 07, 2020
All these dismal things that are going on in the world - the isolation and the sickness and the governments and the pollution - it's so frightful, over the whole world.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, dance has been what's interested me all my life. So whether I am faced with incapacities or not, it still absorbs me.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like teaching, because it's so repetitive - especially the beginning of class, which is always more or less the same and has to be carefully done. It's tedious. But I know it's necessary for dancers to keep working on technique.
- Animals
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- Nov 07, 2020
My work always comes from the same source - from movement. It doesn't necessarily come from an outside idea, though the source can be something small or large that I've seen, often birds or other animals. The seeing can then provoke the imagining.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it or listen to it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
The use of chance operations opened out my way of working. The body tends to be habitual. The use of chance allowed us to find new ways to move and to put movements together that would not otherwise have been available to us. It revealed possibilities that were always there except that my mind hadn't seen them.
- Enriched
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- Nov 07, 2020
In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use the computer as a tool. Like chance or the camera or the other tools I've used, it can open my eye to other ways of seeing or of making dances. It's not simply to do a trick.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cage always wanted to know what my structure was, if I had one. I often did have some sense of the time structure. Then he'd make a different one for the music.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always had this thing about moving around, and that has just remained, regardless of my physical changes. That feeling about it has never changed.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the thing that we agreed to so many years ago, actually, was that the music didn't have to support the dance nor the dance illustrate the music, but they could be two things going on at the same time.
- Graham
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I began to do this thing I do of giving myself a class every day, and trying to experiment and push further. I don't mean to say I knew everything, because I didn't, but I would do what I knew and then push beyond that and see what else I could find.
- Body
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020