In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best… — Alexander Dale Oen Copy Share Image
My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
I launched Ballet Beautiful not long after finishing at Columbia and met Natalie Portman shortly after. We began training and preparing her… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“Every child has known God, Not the God of names, Not the God of don'ts, Not the God who ever does Anything… — Hafiz Copy Share Image
“I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, 'In the name of… — Meg Howrey Copy Share Image
“It was the former ballet star Robert Helpmann who famously observed the problem with dancing naked: when you stop on the music,… — Alastair Macaulay Copy Share Image
The Royal Ballet was good to me. They gave me everything I asked for. It's just... I felt tricked. I became a… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a… — Sierra McCormick Copy Share Image
Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community theater, did shows… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
The colors of 'The Nutcracker' ballet score have become a part of the vocabulary of film music. It's where so much of… — James Newton Howard Copy Share Image
When you do one more 'Cinderella' or whatever, what is there to learn? Every part in the repertoire has a good side… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Being the only African American at this level in American Ballet Theater, I feel like people are looking at me, and it's… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
People say that wrestling is not ballet. But as a former ballerina, I'd like to see some of these men put on… — Carmella Copy Share Image
I've got used to the fact - just about - that whatever I do is going to be compared to the other… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can… — John Guare Copy Share Image
I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the… — Ben Sollee Copy Share Image
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
I was always nervous about coming back to Australia which was a complete hangover of the days when I left when ballet… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to… — Elizabeth Debicki Copy Share Image
The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The… — Kevin McKenzie Copy Share Image
My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we… — Stephanie Gilmore Copy Share Image
Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She… — Ashley Wagner Copy Share Image
Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at… — David Lyons Copy Share Image
My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything… — Shuler Hensley Copy Share Image
When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music… — Gene Kelly Copy Share Image
I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
