The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
Dancers are the athletes of God.
The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.
You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat.
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.
Classical ballet will never die.
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.
The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles through the habit they have contracted of standing on one leg only and playing, as it were, with the other; placing it in a position which though disagreeable and strained, does not fatigue them, because the softness of their tendons and muscles lend themselves to all kinds of movement.
Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and a'so with good sense-a thing in footing indispensable: he danced without theatrical pretence, not like a ballet-master in the van of his drill'd nymphs, but like a gentleman.
I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.
Ballet is only good when it is great.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
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