I definitely have been nervous, but often I get more nervous performing with the corps de ballet than doing a solo. There's… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best… — Alexander Dale Oen Copy Share Image
Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Dad is a skilled athlete and runs his own football school for kids. While football is his entire life and he encouraged… — Montaigne Copy Share Image
I love acting, but that's also kind of what I love about ballet - the acting. So, obviously, film is like an… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
Not very many companies go through Hawaii on their way to anywhere. San Francisco Ballet was the only company I remember, and… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I went to 'The Nutcracker' every year with my grandma and aunt. Then, in my early teen years, I thought I wanted… — Jinkx Monsoon Copy Share Image
When I'm making a new ballet, I usually read through the score a little bit, and then I have to go back… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
As a professional ballet dancer, I have to accept that weekends are about work. The notion of a leisurely break with all… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Pilates is my favorite core strengthener. I do it three or four times a week. With all the strengthening and lengthening, it's… — Emily VanCamp Copy Share Image
Nothing so clearly and inevitably reveals the inner man than movement and gesture. It is quite possible, if one chooses, to conceal… — Doris Humphrey Copy Share Image
The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit… — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating… — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
In England, ballet is kind of closed. They are opening up a little bit, but it was always something not for the… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of… — John Locke Copy Share Image
Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with… — Andrew Asnes Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a dancer from when I was about nine or something like that and started ballet. I used to… — Mia Wasikowska Copy Share Image
I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class.… — Peter Vack Copy Share Image
At 35 years of age, I realized that my ballet career wasn't going to last for ever. As a parent of three… — Li Cunxin Copy Share Image
My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things… — Maira Kalman Copy Share Image
One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
City Ballet has to develop choreographers of stature and a new approach to coaching before everything we value about it fades away… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else.… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
There are no taking days off. There are no distractions. If I had that, I physically wouldn't be capable of going onstage… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Ballet requires movements which are very unnatural. With every step, you do a circular movement of the hip. You turn out from… — Darcey Bussell 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
I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's… — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid,… — Ramsay Burt Copy Share Image
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
When I started thinking seriously about learning the rules of narrative, I thought, 'You've learned the rules of dancing from the ballet;… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me… — Georgina Haig Copy Share Image
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with… — Essence Atkins Copy Share Image
Call me twinkle toes. Honestly, in my past, one of the physically hardest classes that I have ever taken was ballet. I… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
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