I want to show that black people can dance ballet as well as white people. — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the… — Kristie Phillips Copy Share Image
So if the dance is five minutes long, make yourself run for perhaps eight minutes. That way, you over-train and the dance… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
There was never really a moment that I decided that I wanted to be a ballet dancer. It's always just felt like… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer. — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults. — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of… — Caroline Sunshine Copy Share Image
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and… — Jillian Rose Reed Copy Share Image
I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
I tried a little of everything when I was little. I tried karate, I tried ballet, I tried piano lessons and singing… — Cassie Ventura Copy Share Image
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation,… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do.… — Misty Copeland 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
Being a dark black ballet dancer, there's a lot of pressure on us. I feel like I have to work ten times… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
“When a dancer performs, melody transforms into a carriage, expressions turn into fuel and spirit experiences a journey to a world where… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I see fashion as going on par with all the other cultural institutions here. Ballet, theater, opera - I don't see fashion… — Stephanie Winston Wolkoff Copy Share Image
“It is vain for Mr. McCabe to say that a ballet is a part of him. He should be part of a… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
I never thought of myself as special or particularly good at anything. But once I started ballet, suddenly I had a new… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that… — Sergio Martinez Copy Share Image
When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer — Gabrielle Roth Copy Share Image
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Ballet is a finite art - your body won't let you do it forever, so I wanted to do it while I… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Technique-bodily control-must be mastered only because the body must not stand in the way of the soul's expression. — La Meri Copy Share Image
Ballet is the one form of theater where nobody speaks a foolish word all evening nobody on the stage at least. — Edwin Denby Copy Share Image
I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and… — Cheryl Burke Copy Share Image
I didn't care how much work it would take, and I didn't see the time invested as a waste or like I… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
