The Royal Ballet School looked after me very well, they were like my family, and the company gave me everything. But I… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
In authoritarian societies, cultural institutions tend to become ideological proxies - think of the National Ballet in Cuba or the East German… — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible. — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre… — Margaret Qualley Copy Share Image
Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight. — Jean-Georges Noverre 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
I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place… — Olivia Cooke Copy Share Image
I'm not completely trained in any one area - I'm not a tap person or a ballet person. I don't have a… — Matthew Bourne Copy Share Image
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
Since babyhood, I've always evolved from one thing to another. My mother gave me ballet lessons at 6 as part of her… — Judith Jamison 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
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I was a daughterless mother. I had nowhere to put the things a mother places on her daughter. The nail polish I… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
An artistic standpoint - I've watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other,… — Nathan Chen Copy Share Image
I joined Spandau Ballet not because I wanted to be the best musician in the world, but because I wanted to be… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When… — Rudolf Nureyev 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
I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I was afraid when I came to the Royal Ballet that it would be easy to have everyone walking all over me… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Nicholas Hytner, who directed Center Stage, is a huge ballet fan. He was completely open, as was Bruce Beresford, to get our… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
