I want to take advantage of my youth and pursue ballet professionally. — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement. — Azzedine Alaia Copy Share Image
I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis. — Phyllis Smith Copy Share Image
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than… — Julia Jones Copy Share Image
I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire… — Rachael Stirling Copy Share Image
The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I've avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
When you're a child, you take things for granted. For instance, my mum didn't have a lot of money, but I went… — Holliday Grainger 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
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more. — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota. — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
I loved gymnastics, and my gymnastics teacher said ballet was essential to help my dance routines in competitions. I only really went… — Darcey Bussell Copy Share Image
Whether it was 'The Krays' or 'EastEnders' or the songs in Spandau Ballet, if you do a good job or make something… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
My dream was to become a ballet dancer, but after a year in bed with rheumatic fever at 13, I had grown… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image
I have always loved fashion because it's a great way to express your mood. And I'm definitely a shoe lover. The right… — Fergie Copy Share Image
I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
No live performance can ever be perfect, and that's what keeps you on your toes - it pushes you to practice harder,… — Andrew Keenan-Bolger Copy Share Image
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work.… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I wanted to open the dialogue about race in ballet and bring more people in. It's just beautiful to see the interest… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
The apex of perfection in equestrian art is not an exhibition of a great deal of different airs and movements by the… — Nuno Oliveira Copy Share Image
I was a ballet dancer for so long, but when I realized I had reached my limit and that I couldn't go… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
The rumor is that when I was younger, I didn't like to sweat and I didn't like to run, and both of… — Jessica Korda Copy Share Image
Having Alexei Ratmansky create a new Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada to mark our 60th anniversary is a… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it. — Edwin Denby Copy Share Image
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
