Agnes de Mille
Choreographer
1905-09-18 – 1993-10-07
Agnes de Mille was an American dancer and choreographer. She played a major role in integrating dance and narrative in Broadway musicals, including Oklahoma!. Her choreography helped shape twentieth-century American theater dance.
Quotes by Agnes de Mille
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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.
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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.
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A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
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No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
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Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what's next or how. The moment you know how you begin to die a little.
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I learned three important things in college: to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.
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