French - Dancer | February 25, 1965 -
One has to learn to say, 'Wait, there is a pain that is not logical. I will do a scan, and if there is something serious, I will stop immediately.' If the body sends a message, you have to listen to it.
Sylvie Guillem
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Most producers who want you to dance are not looking at the long term. They see their evenings, the box office, whom they have to repay, whatever.
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While I enjoy it, I will continue to go onstage. While I contribute something, fine. I don't want to be dragging my feet. I don't want to become pathetic, but I think I will be lucid enough. I'll know when to stop.
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I judge myself severely.
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I am not nice. That has gotten me into a lot of trouble.
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There's a picture of me as a little girl, and I'm waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger.
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Between what I know I can do and want to achieve and what the audience expects, it's a lot of pressure, and it's always adding up.
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I think it's going to be the most difficult thing to do, to leave the stage. But if you have no lucidity about it, it's even worse because you don't see the negative side of you still being onstage.
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The problems I had with the Paris Opera Ballet are a thing of the past.
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I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique. It's perfect. It's beautiful. It's well done. But it lacks the theatrical tradition that is so important in England. At the Royal Ballet, absolutely everyone on stage seems to be caught up in the plot.
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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.
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At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.
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