Agrippina Vaganova famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

David Alford technique that does NOT serve expression leads to exibitionism.
-- Agrippina Vaganova

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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

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Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
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.
My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.
If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
In order for the State in the person of school officials to justify prohibition of a particular expression of opinion, it must be able to show that its action was caused by something more than a mere desire to avoid the discomfort and unpleasantness that always accompany an unpopular viewpoint.
Expression and communication in the peakâ€“experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to express such states of being.
In times of violence, personal predilections for niceties of colour and form seem irrelevant. All primitive expression (like the myths) reveals the constant awareness of powerful forces, the immediate presence of terror and fear.
Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.
I had classic technique - one of the best techniques when I was like 10, 12, but then I changed.

Agrippina Vaganova famous quotes

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