"Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!"

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Source : "In conversation: Jiri Kylian on the choreographer's art". Interview to Dance Magazine, November 1, 1994.

Jiri Kylian

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“The key question companies need to address is not 'Should we make mistakes?' but rather 'Which mistakes should we make in order to test our deeply held assumptions?'”

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“I like doing film, you know, single-camera.”
“It [The Esemblist] is also about the generation of audience members that are watching shows and listening to us at the same time; hopefully, in time, when they listen to our show and then go see a show, they'll realize even more what it takes to make a show, and they'll know even more about everybody on stage, rather than just people above the title of the show.”
“There are moderates in Israel. There are moderates in Iran, there are moderates in the Republican Party, moderates in the Democratic Party. What we need to do is we need link all of these moderates together and to figure out a way by which this particular coalition can speak to important issues to marginalize the voice of the extremists.”

Source : "Creating A New Vision Of Islam In America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. May 09, 2012.
“Yeah, I had a tremendous time shooting in Nebraska. I like that state a lot, all over it.”
“I won't go to Hell for swearing because I repent too damn fast!”
“I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.”
“People tend to grow fearful, when they taste failure, face a daunting challenge or fall ill. Yet, that is precisely the time to become even bolder. Those who are victors at heart are the greatest of all champions!!!!”

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