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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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Agnes de Mille
Age: 88 †
Born: 1905
Born: September 18
Died: 1993
Died: October 6
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Dancer
Theatrical Director
Harlem
New York
Feet
Exhausting
Winning
Equivalent
Hours
Ballet
Process
Match
Energy
Required
Happens
Tennis
Writing
Dance
Roughly
Work
Novel
Simultaneously

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If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention to its politicians.
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