A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I did ballet at the Menlo Park Academy of Dance from age 4 to 11, but then I switched to ballroom, and… — Cheryl Burke Copy Share Image
I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
When I stopped doing ballet, I started training in the pool. I would do my barre exercises in the water, because that… — Summer Glau 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
As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move.… — Darcey Bussell 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
Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're… — Shane MacGowan Copy Share Image
When she goes about her kitchen duties, chopping, carving, mixing, whisking, she moves with the grace and precision of a ballet dancer,… — Craig Claiborne 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 would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
Anything that's outdoorsy and fun, like hiking, biking, running, paddleboarding, swimming in the ocean... and then I'll mix in Pilates, yoga, spin,… — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet. — G-Dragon Copy Share Image
Peaky' has attracted a lot of attention from different disciplines in the arts. It was originally going to be a ballet, which… — Steven Knight Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was… — George MacKay Copy Share Image
