Ballet Quotes - Page 15

• Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

  Oscar Levant

  Baseball, Fairy

  "Oscar the Magnificent". "The Los Angeles Times", January 26, 1969.

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• Dancing is being trusted with other people's guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I'm giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

  Judith Jamison

  People, Giving, Dancing

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• Dancing cheek to cheek.

  Irving Berlin

  Dancing, Cheeks

  "Cheek to Cheek" (song) (1935)

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• I could have danced all night!

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Night, All Night

  "I Could Have Danced All Night" (song) (1956)

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• My dancing days are past.

  Philip Massinger

  Past, Dancing

  Philip Massinger (1805). “The plays of Philip Massinger, with notes by W. Gifford”, p.149

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• They were doing the Dying Swan at the ballet. And there was a rumor that some bookmarkers had drifted into town from upstate New York and that they had fixed the bullet. There was a lot of money bet on the swan to live.

  Woody Allen

  New York, Swans, Rumor

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• To dance is to give channel to the Creator.

  Ali Abdullah Saleh

  Giving, Creator

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• We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.

  Alain LeRoy Locke

  Never Forget, Forget, Cradle

  Alain LeRoy Locke (1988). “The Negro and his music: Negro art: past and present”, Ayer Co Pub

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• About, about, in reel and rout the death fires danced at night.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Night, Fire

  William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Michael Mason (2007). “Lyrical Ballads”, p.184, Pearson Education

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• Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.

  Paul Robeson

  Heritage, Steps, Modern

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• Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.

  Noah Webster

  Order, People, Dancing

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• I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

  Jody Watley

  Mirrors, Dancing, Acting

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• I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

  Frank Hubbard

  Girl, Thinking, Looks

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• I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

  Alan Bennett

  Hands, Collaboration, Fruit

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• In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

  George Gascoigne

  Eye, Hands, Liberty

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• Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.

  Agnes de Mille

  Hypnosis, Self, Giving

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• Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.

  Lord Byron

  Feet, Legs, Arms

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• Ten thousand saw I at a glance, tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

  William Wordsworth

  Flower, Saws, Glances

  1804 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', stanza 2 (published 1807).

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• The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

  Martha Graham

  Art, Dancer, Age

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• The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Autumn, Red Leaves, Lasts

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2015). “The Complete Plays of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Dramatic Works of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan and Christabel; including The Piccolomini, The Death of Wallenstein, Remorse”, p.20, e-artnow

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• To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

  John Milton

  Dancing, Maids, Shade

  John Milton (1824). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton”, p.407

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• Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Dancing, Carriages, Importance

  Benjamin Disraeli (1846). “Contarini Fleming: A Romance”, p.99

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• When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Soccer, Gymnastics, Always Trying

  "Chloë Moretz: 'I'm not cussing and killing people - I'm normal'". Interview With Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

  Marius Petipa

  Europe, States, Said

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• All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

  Natalia Makarova

  Reading, World, Inner World

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