You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
My workout is ballet class and rehearsal - I've never belonged to a gym. — Yuan Yuan Tan Copy Share Image
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat. — Artie Shaw Copy Share Image
Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
“We act as a conduit for the observers’ unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river,… — Guy Mankowski 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
The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
I was an apprentice at the San Francisco Ballet, and a casting director came to one of our rehearsals to scout talent… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I just realized I wanted to do more than ballet. I was offered an apprenticeship, so I was about to join a… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do… — Suzanne Farrell 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
The contemporary programs in London are harder and much more damaging for the body. With classical ballet you are relaxed mentally because… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in… — Benjamin Harkarvy Copy Share Image
The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul. The true dance is an expression of serenity; it is controlled… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I… — Bill Tilden Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass,… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
I just stay healthy all year round. I try to feel good in my skin. For me, I have trained in ballet… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Alright. Let's get realistic now. You know and I know that the function of that number was just to provide some sort… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,'… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I danced with the Ballet Russe in Paris when I was 16 and did not need a companion. — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet. — Sarah Gadon Copy Share Image
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
