I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand…

“To appreciate the best opportunity for attack and defence, you must fully understand the rhythm of movement. (Page 28).”

— Sadami Yamada

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I…

— Greta Gerwig

Love means a lot to those whose hearts understand its rhythm and language.

— Anonymous

Russians understand the rhythm of despair.

— Suzanne Massie

“We're all looking for a rhythm, a movement that isn't forced, that feels right. I wanted to be more surefooted. I was still searching…

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.”

— Victor Hugo

“The rhythm of movement is the dance of music.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

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

No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

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

“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the…

— Toni Bentley