I was a ballet dancer. I did other kinds of dance but ballet was my great love. But then it became clear,… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.' — Robert Rinder 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 was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years.… — Kiesza Copy Share Image
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your… — Jean-Georges Noverre 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
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
If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body. — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
In the Royal Ballet Company, there was a Japanese principal dancer, and onstage and in ballet, they have colorblind castings - so… — Sonoya Mizuno 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
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being… — Christian Louboutin 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 don't feel like my life is that of a superstar! Every day I wake up, I take the train, I go… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
I always enjoy ballet when you can read the situation very precisely, when I could tell you exactly which sentence that person… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
Dad worked in a warehouse when I was little and I didn't see him for three years as he was doing all… — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
