I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She… — Elad Lassry Copy Share Image
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there… — Sarah Sutton Copy Share Image
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance… — Sondra Horton Fraleigh Copy Share Image
I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so… — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I think my mom put me in tap classes when I was three, which I never pursued. I don't know how to… — Daniela Ruah Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would write an opera, maybe because of the words. But yes, I would be really excited to… — Alexandre Desplat Copy Share Image
Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I did think of becoming a ballet dancer at one point. I had a girlfriend who was teaching in the ballet school.… — Bernard Cribbins Copy Share Image
The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what… — John Guare Copy Share Image
It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
It became my first passion, the first thing I really fell in love with. I joined the Ralph Robinson Ballet company, and… — Lawrence Bender Copy Share Image
I did tap dancing and stuff like that at drama school. I did ballet as well. My dance teacher and I didn't… — Tom Weston-Jones Copy Share Image
I had to try to understand how much of a taboo it was. My mum worked in ballet and theatre when she… — George MacKay Copy Share Image
I started as a hoofer and all-round chorus girl. I did my first ballet lesson when I was three, then trained as… — Caroline Quentin Copy Share Image
I've always been interested in both writing and music. When I first started getting published, I also worked as rehearsal pianist for… — William Sleator Copy Share Image
Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If… — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
“In ballet, any dancer who asks himself what step comes next must freeze. Any man who takes a sex manual to bed… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in… — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
I announced at the dinner table when I was 11 that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. But my goal changed… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
Peaky' has attracted a lot of attention from different disciplines in the arts. It was originally going to be a ballet, which… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only… — Matthew Bourne 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
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
Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years, where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo 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
