I eat a big breakfast and then go off to an hour and a half of strong ballet class. — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration. — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
“I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws it beneath my stomach. "One more time..."… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and… — Charles Sorel Copy Share Image
My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
While I was in Astana, a ballet master from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre staged a performance of 'Giselle' in the opera hall.… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to… — Angel Corella Copy Share Image
Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Three months before he died, I began to steal things from my father's house. I wandered around barefoot and slipped objects into… — Lisa Brennan-Jobs Copy Share Image
Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
If one had to define one essential gift with which a dancer needs to be endowed, there might be a rush of… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
