My mum took me to the ballet at three, and that was the only time I sat still, with jaw open, mesmerised.… — Emma Rigby Copy Share Image
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore.… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Most ballerinas take their first ballet class when they are 5 or 6 years old. I was 13 when I took mine… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire. — Dita Von Teese Copy Share Image
It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
I love music; I love dancing. I took, like, eight years of ballet when I was a kid, and I still love… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The minute we don't finance the arts, the accountants, attorneys and politicians keep taking the cream of money off the top and… — Carmen Dell'Orefice 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
I've always had a crazy sense of humor. So the ballet probably wouldn't have been enough for me. I had to clown… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If… — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have… — Bob Fosse Copy Share Image
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music. — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
“We break off into the streets, repairing the cobblestones with our brisk allegro. The townsfolk step aside in awe as my allongés… — Kiana Krystle Copy Share Image
After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Some of my friends were going to dancing school and, when one of them was auditioning for a ballet school in Kiev,… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to… — Lily Rabe Copy Share Image
