A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Ballet, dance, movement, performance - it is the bedrock of why I love to perform. — Lily Gladstone Copy Share Image
Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in. — Misty Copeland 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
I danced in corps de ballet for 11 hours a day. That was the hardest work I have ever done in my… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being… — Christian Louboutin Copy Share Image
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
I love dancing, actually. My mother taught children's dance, ballet, tap, jazz...I'm very flexible. — Michael Angarano Copy Share Image
I used to love tap, that was favourite, and a bit of street dancing. Ballet I tried to avoid. — James DeGale Copy Share Image
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as… — Marty Stuart Copy Share Image
There comes a moment in a young artist's life when he knows he has to bring something to the stage from within… — Mikhail Baryshnikov 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
When I was doing gymnastics, I was playing. It was fun. The ballet was not fun at all. Yes, I agree you… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
“Yes but the point is that you can go to the ballet with me or a baseball game or a concert and… — Mary Calmes Copy Share Image
“Ballet isn’t pop culture, after all; it is an art of the chosen few, a selected elite, for those who understand it;… — Catherine E. Pawlick Copy Share Image
For a long time everyone had a stereotype of ballet that it was easy and that we were just prancing around. But… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I am striving to reach the stars as a prima ballerina, but my most important reason for wanting this is because of… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
I wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to… — Graeme Murphy Copy Share Image
“Alright. Let's get realistic now. You know and I know that the function of that number was just to provide some sort… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10… — Misty Copeland 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
“Under the seeming disorder of the old city, wherever the old city is working successfully, is a marvelous order for maintaining the… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones… — Joan Chen Copy Share Image
Chloe Honum's brilliant first book The Tulip-Flame traces an identity forming within radically divergent but interlocking systems: a family traumatized by the… — Claudia Emerson Copy Share Image
There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image