Ballet Class Quotes - Page 2

• I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

  Diane Kruger

  Beautiful, Emotional, Dancer

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• The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger and more lasting than the individual.

  Marcia Siegel

  Vocabulary, Order, Discipline

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you have to adapt the technique to your abilities or to your deficiencies. Learn to cheat!

  Jiri Kylian

  Dance, Teacher, Perfection

  "In conversation: Jiri Kylian on the choreographer's art". Interview to Dance Magazine, November 1, 1994.

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• If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

  Isadora Duncan

  Music, Dance, Dancing

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• Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

  W. H. Auden

  Dance, Dancing, Rafters

  'Letter to William Coldstream, Esq.' (1937).

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• I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied, that in ballet class you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

  Jillian Hervey

  Dancer, Listening, Connections

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go to my ballet class. My everyday life is pretty normal.

  Misty Copeland

  Everyday, Normal, Wake Up

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

  Amanda Schull

  Moving, Yoga, Practice

  "Amanda Schull Suits and 12 Monkeys actor". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

  Michelle Trachtenberg

  Practice, Two, Feet

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• My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.

  Misty Copeland

  Years, Careers, Together

  Source: bknation.org

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• On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Thinking, Hands, Discipline

  "Ballerina of the Century". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.

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• My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'

  Stephanie Gilmore

  Dad, Sick, Car

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• She drove me to ballet class...and she took me to every audition. She'd be proud of me if I was still sitting in that seat or if I was watching from home. She believes in me and that's why this [award] is for her. She's a wonderful mother.

  Elisabeth Moss

  Inspiring, Mom, Mother

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• I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Women, Humor

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• My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.

  Misty Copeland

  Basketball, Class, Clothes

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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