For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form. — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms. — George Balanchine 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
“Transcend the terrestrial; surpass the celestial, from nature’s hands when you receive the sublime pleasures of dance.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
“By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in… — Walter Terry Copy Share Image
Ballet is great for spatial awareness. It does wonders for your core and your flexibility and, of course, you have to exercise… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I… — Chris Messina Copy Share Image
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is… — Mark Morris Copy Share Image
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready. — Carine Roitfeld Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I'd always wanted to take karate, but my parents wouldn't let me because I did a lot… — Adena Friedman Copy Share Image
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The contemporary programs in London are harder and much more damaging for the body. With classical ballet you are relaxed mentally because… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in… — Benjamin Harkarvy 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
I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's… — Orianthi 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
When I was young, I couldn't think about ballet because I had to focus on my own field. But once you secure… — Marina Abramovic Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
There are three steps you have to complete to become a professional dancer: learn to dance, learn to perform, and learn how… — David Gere Copy Share Image
It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward. — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should… — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career. — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of… — Maria Karnilova Copy Share Image
I was an apprentice at the San Francisco Ballet, and a casting director came to one of our rehearsals to scout talent… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about… — Cherie Lunghi Copy Share Image
