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
Long experience has taught me that the crux of my fortunes is whether I can radiate good will toward my audience. There… — Howard Thurston 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
I'd make all schoolchildren take ballet lessons every morning. And I'd ban advertising aimed at children. — Helen Baxendale Copy Share Image
I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd… — Jennifer Grey Copy Share Image
Sabine gestured to him with the half-eaten crust. "I like him. Not sure why he's wasting his time with the pole dancer,… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance,… — Lynn Swann Copy Share Image
If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never… — Elizabeth Berkley Copy Share Image
I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I… — Miranda Otto Copy Share Image
You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about… — Merce Cunningham Copy Share Image
The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of… — Jimmy Cannon Copy Share Image
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
I was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so… — Tinashe Copy Share Image
Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me. — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity. — Bowie Kuhn 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
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
