Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of…

Remember that for every technique you think you can fall back on, there is a counter for it, or there are times when it…

— Masaaki Hatsumi

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss…

— Rudolf Nureyev

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear,…

— Shirley MacLaine

Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression.

— La Meri

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world,

— Natalia Makarova

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to…

— Patrick Swayze

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

— Ann Reinking

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet…

— Misty Copeland

I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer.

— Travis Fimmel

Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because…

— Suzanne Farrell

Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It…

— Peter Martins

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

— Ruth St. Denis

What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through…

— Michaela DePrince

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

— Sutton Foster

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones