Ballet Quotes - Page 4

• Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Dancing, Way, Path

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• In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Men, Order, Important

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• True art consists in concealing art.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Concealing

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• In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it is imperative for dancers to divide their time and studies between the mind and the body, and that both become the object of their application; but, unfortunately, all is given to the latter and nothing to the former. The legs are rarely guided by the brain, and, since intelligence and taste do not reside in the feet, one often goes astray.

  Jean-Georges Noverre

  Art, Feet, Order

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• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  Jesse Ventura

  Sports, Wrestling, Violence

  "Jesse Ventura's Theory of Politics". Interview with Vann R. Newkirk Ii, www.theatlantic.com. July 25, 2016.

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• We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Music, Dance, Dancing

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.198, Penguin

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• Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dance, Heart, Ballet Class

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• I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

  Harold Nicholas

  Brother, People, Dancer

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• Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

  Robert Caro

  Beautiful, Faces, Looks

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• Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

  Deborah Bull

  Careers, Dancing, Royal

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• I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

  Deborah Bull

  Class, Royal, Stills

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• In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

  Suzanne Farrell

  Children, Hiking, Midwest

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

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• I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.

  Jennifer Garner

  Dancer, Musical, Rehearsal

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• Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.

  John Guare

  New York, Cities, People

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• The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

  John Guare

  Life, New York, Cities

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• And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

  John Guare

  New York, Cities, Numbers

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• The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

  Robert Caro

  New York, Talking, Cities

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• I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

  Jaclyn Smith

  Teacher, Ballet Teachers, Wanted

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• I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

  John Guare

  New York, Thinking, Yankees

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• Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

  Henry Mayhew

  Girl, Reputation, Cases

  Henry Mayhew (2012). “The London Underworld in the Victorian Period: Authentic First-Person Accounts by Beggars, Thieves and Prostitutes”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

  Marie Windsor

  Shoes, Boots, Knees

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

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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

  Ninette de Valois

  Art, School, Special

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• You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.

  Ninette de Valois

  Dance, Progress, Attention

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• You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

  Ninette de Valois

  Education, Creating, Genius

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