“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
On an ideal Saturday night, I'll go to the New York City Ballet, where my friends play percussion. — Molly Yeh Copy Share Image
Letting go of perfectionism, so ingrained in the nature of a ballet dancer, can be the most difficult thing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet. — Le'Veon Bell Copy Share Image
I think the leotard for me became, after I retired, a sort of a symbol of the confines of still fitting into… — Wendy Whelan Copy Share Image
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went… — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
I always enjoy ballet when you can read the situation very precisely, when I could tell you exactly which sentence that person… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I went to the International Ballet competition when I was 15 or 16 and that was the first time I competed. I… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
And then he danced,-all foreigners excel the serious Angels in the eloquence of pantomime;-he danced, I say, right well, with emphasis, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Before a show, I usually give myself two-and-a-half hours to get ready. I prepare my shoes first. New ballet pumps can sound… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
I was so invested in ballet, and it was my entire life. And then it was realizing that I didn't want it… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class.… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with… — Andrew Asnes Copy Share Image
“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid,… — Ramsay Burt Copy Share Image
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's… — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
Call me twinkle toes. Honestly, in my past, one of the physically hardest classes that I have ever taken was ballet. I… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Figure skating has been a great influence for me. I took dance at the School of American Ballet, which helped my own… — Vera Wang Copy Share Image
When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me… — Georgina Haig Copy Share Image
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with… — Essence Atkins Copy Share Image
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else.… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
