When you do one more 'Cinderella' or whatever, what is there to learn? Every part in the repertoire has a good side and a bad side, and the more often you do the same ballet, the more often the bad side comes out. If you want to give dance life, you must give it fresh food, not keep going back to the garbage to look for old scraps.
Interpretation
Repetition stifles creativity; fresh experiences fuel artistic growth.
Sylvie Guillem emphasizes the importance of variety and innovation in dance. She argues that repeatedly performing the same piece can highlight its flaws instead of its beauty, and to truly invigorate dance, one must seek new inspirations rather than reverting to old routines that may bring diminishing returns.
In practice
In a dance workshop, to inspire students to explore new styles.
There are some ballets you can do for a long time. With others, you have to know when to stop. Some are very destructive. Forsythe's choreography pushes dancers to the extreme. That's why it's best to vary. That way, you break your body a little bit in different places, but not a lot in one place.
Dancers should realise that they are really lucky. Dancing is not a job. It's people who are chosen. And you must realise that you are chosen. Sometimes I see a performance that makes me really angry - I think, 'Those people are lucky, and they don't realise it.'
When you're writing fiction or poetry... it really comes down to this: indifference to everything except what you're doing... A young writer could do worse than follow the advice given in those lines.
a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being
The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
Music is structure out of Chaos
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.
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