Camille Claudel, La Valse, (1899-1905)
such a genius, such a tragedy.
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MY DARLING ALEXI DRESCHKE
New Slate 2012
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"real ugliness is just as rare as real beauty"
ASGER JORN - ARTIST'S STATEMENT
published 1964 in Asger Jorn by Guy Atkins.
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tell me what led you on, I'd love to know.
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Conversation between dancers Trisha Brown and Mikhail Baryshnikov. From Annette Grant's “Misha and Trisha, Talking Dance”, August 8, 1999, The New York Times.
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From T.J. Clark's Image of the People: Courbet and the 1848 Revolution. "On the Social History of Art" (pg. 20)
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“Ballet is definitely one of the most democratic arts….Just as any real art; it is called upon to embody high humanistic ideals and socially important themes; it can and must depict in artistic images the life and struggle of the nations, the spiritual experience of the human personality”
Composer Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (1903-1978)
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"the greatest mission of the dancer is to contribute to the betterment of mankind"
Ruth St. Denis, "Religious Manifestations in the Dance"
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"We do not accept a picture which expresses nothing; how then can we tolerate a man without expression?"
Mikhail Fokine, "The New Ballet", written for Russian periodical Argus, published 1916.
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