My school uniform in primary school was yellow, North Ryde Public School. When I did ballet, you wear a particular ribbon depending… — Emma Watkins Copy Share Image
What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer. — Pat Steir Copy Share Image
When I was 3 years old, my parents put me in ballet and I really thought I was gonna be a ballet… — Helene Yorke Copy Share Image
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their… — Brian Dennehy Copy Share Image
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little… — FKA twigs Copy Share Image
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. — Michael Gambon Copy Share Image
Contrary to vulgar legend the lives of great ballerinas are not entirely given up to a few minutes of graceful movement every… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
One of my sisters was doing dance, and I'd watch from the back of the classroom in my trainers. Slowly, I started… — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
My parents were passionate about the ballet. They always played ballet music at home. — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
I go to bed really late - if I just sleep I won't have a life outside ballet. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
I've always just done ballet, and I feel like I'm sort of living the dream. — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
The noble entitlement bespeaks an élan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The… — Kevin McKenzie Copy Share Image
My family were so poor. My mum would clean houses to maybe get me to a ballet class, bless her. — Claudia Jessie Copy Share Image
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at… — David Lyons Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being becomes dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
What I need to survive is food, water, shelter, love and ballet. If I didn't have any one of them I'd probably… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
