If it were not for dreams there would not be such a thing as ballet, the cruelest of the performing arts. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap. — Emily VanCamp Copy Share Image
“We act as a conduit for the observers’ unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river,… — Guy Mankowski Copy Share Image
“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice. — Faina Ranevskaya Copy Share Image
Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet… — Gabe Polsky Copy Share Image
My years of ballet and jazz dance lessons didn't make me any more graceful - they just helped keep me from bumping… — Toni Tennille Copy Share Image
Ballet Beautiful is a workout that transforms the body without overtaxing the system or joints. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types.… — Jillian Hervey Copy Share Image
Theatre can transform a child's life, just as an early cultural experience whether with opera, ballet, music or art is a wonderful… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I went to Indiana University for college for a couple of years, where I double majored in dance and journalism, and after… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Obviously, something like ballet, you have music, you dance with the music and it's a very direct connection. With visual art, when… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can… — Marcia Haydee Copy Share Image
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing. — Maisie Williams Copy Share Image
I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music… — Gene Kelly 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
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
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
Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look… — Sonoya Mizuno Copy Share Image
My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we… — Stephanie Gilmore Copy Share Image
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm… — Susan Stroman Copy Share Image
My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She… — Ashley Wagner 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
I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things… — Herschel Walker Copy Share Image
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to… — Elizabeth Debicki 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
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 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
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
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
'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
Acting is a sense of wonder and magic and mystery for me and when life takes me on a new journey, I… — Andrea Thompson Copy Share Image
There is something about Dior that reminds me of New York City Ballet. They both have a classic, glamorous basis but are… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
