Ballet Quotes
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
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.
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.
Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the singers, the staging.
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
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.
Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.
Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.
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.
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.
You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.