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19th-century Choreographer Quotes

Isadora Duncan
Vaslav Nijinsky
Mary Wigman
August Bournonville
Agrippina Vaganova
Ruth St. Denis

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I see only the ideal. But no ideals have ever been fully successful on this earth.

Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan
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People like eccentrics and they will therefore leave me alone, saying that I am a "mad clown."

Vaslav Nijinsky
Vaslav Nijinsky
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The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.

August Bournonville
August Bournonville
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I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.

Ruth St. Denis
Ruth St. Denis
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Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

Agrippina Vaganova
Agrippina Vaganova
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Sometimes at night I slipped into the studio and worked myself up into a rhythmic intoxication to come closer to the slowly rising character. I could feel how everything pointed toward a clearly defined dance figure. The richness of rhythmic ideas was overwhelming

Mary Wigman
Mary Wigman

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