George Balanchine Quotes - Page 2

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• They are poets of gesture.

  George Balanchine

  Dancing, Gestures, Poet

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• I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

  George Balanchine

  Believe, Ballet, Movement

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• Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Teacher, Medicine

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• Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

  George Balanchine

  Ballet, Speak

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• The woman's function is to fascinate men.

  George Balanchine

  Men, Function

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• In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet, Stories

  Life magazine, p. 98, June 11, 1965.

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• I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet, Masterpiece

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• The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

  George Balanchine

  Girl, Strong, Elephants

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• I am a cloud - in trousers.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Clouds, Ballet

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• The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Eye, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

  George Balanchine

  Eye, Brain, Cameras

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• My muse must come to me on union time.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Ballet, Unions

  "Balanchine Said" by Arlene Croce, www.newyorker.com. January 26, 2009.

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• One is born to be a great dancer.

  George Balanchine

  Dancer, Born

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• I have no literary approach - except to literature.

  George Balanchine

  Literature, Approach

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