The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
For 24 hours a day, for 10 years, all I thought about was being in a band. That's all I did. I… — Gary Kemp Copy Share Image
I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It… — Rita Ora Copy Share Image
I love New York. I was in New York at the age of 13, at the School of American Ballet, walking around… — Teri Polo Copy Share Image
“Classic Ballet, Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas… — Paul Taylor Copy Share Image
I'd really like to get to do some fighting, some martial arts training, because I think that would be really fun I… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
My philosophy on choreography is that the making of a ballet is a team effort, and we're in this together. It's not… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
The paintings that laughed at him merrily from the walls were like nothing he had ever seen or dreamed of. Gone were… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had… — Catherine Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
I grew up in San Francisco, and I trained as a ballet dancer until college. — Chloe Benjamin Copy Share Image
People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I would like to tell all dancers to forget themselves and the desire for self display. They must become completely absorbed in… — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
Russian culture is multifaceted and diverse. So if you want to understand, to feel Russia, then of course you need to read… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There's a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that's… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little… — Andy Rooney Copy Share Image
The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to… — Gerald Arpino Copy Share Image
I played soccer and baseball, and that's all. But what if I had been the best at like, ballet? And I didn't… — Spencer Pratt Copy Share Image
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's… — Liza Minnelli Copy Share Image
Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,'… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
