Toe dancing is a dandy attention getter, second only to screaming.

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"Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out."

- Agnes de Mille

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"The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously."

- Agnes de Mille

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"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."

- Agnes de Mille

Connection to Earth

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and its music. Bodies never lie."

- Agnes de Mille

Connection to Earth

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie."

- Agnes de Mille

Connection to Earth

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- Maya Angelou

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"Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless."

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"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."

- Herman Melville

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"I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying."

- Oscar Wilde

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"Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too."

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