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Lincoln Kirstein Quotes

Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon Picture Quote #1

The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air Picture Quote #1

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression Picture Quote #1

He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer’s body and a dancer’s capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life Picture Quote #1

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer’s character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist’s presence Picture Quote #1

She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity Picture Quote #1

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In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today Picture Quote #1

If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer’s character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist’s presence Picture Quote #1

I’ve always had the idea... That we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency Picture Quote #1

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Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes) The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes) Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes) He was trained as a dancer, and he had both a dancer’s body and a dancer’s capacity. He incarnated for me the most appealing and tragic aspects of American lower-class life (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes) If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer’s character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist’s presence. (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes) She was chronologically in luck. She corresponded to necessity (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes) In liberal democracy and anxious anarchy, the traditional classic dance, compact of aristocratic authority and absolute freedom in a necessity of order, has never been so promising as an independent expression as it is today (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes) If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of answers. A beautiful body, grace of line, graciousness of spirit, joy in the work, ability to please, unswerving integrity, relentless ambition towards some abstract perfection. Certainly all these factors determine a dancer’s character, and every element exists in some combination within the performing artist’s presence (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes) I’ve always had the idea... That we were conducting a military operation. It always seemed to me to be in a state of emergency (Lincoln Kirstein Quotes)