I used to love tap, that was favourite, and a bit of street dancing. Ballet I tried to avoid. — James DeGale 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 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
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
New York. It's home to opera, Broadway, museums, the ballet and orchestra - everything that I love. The most real people in… — Kristin Chenoweth 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
Dance has been a driving force in my life for 25 years. From music videos and hip hop, to jazz and musical… — Anna Kaiser Copy Share Image
My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any… — Sarah Shahi Copy Share Image
“Music and Dancing, not only give great pleasure but have the honour of depending on Mathematics, for they consist in number and… — Charles Sorel Copy Share Image
While I was in Astana, a ballet master from St. Petersburg's Mariinsky Theatre staged a performance of 'Giselle' in the opera hall.… — Keith Gessen Copy Share Image
I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to… — Angel Corella Copy Share Image
The discipline that ballet requires is obsessive. And only the ones who dedicate their whole lives are able to make it. Your… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
“I feel his arm Lightly Over me. He takes one of my outstretched hands. Draws it beneath my stomach. "One more time..."… — Stasia Ward Kehoe Copy Share Image
I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique.… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the Glowing Hours… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight. — Clive Barnes Copy Share Image
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world;… — Benjamin Millepied Copy Share Image
I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that...… — Allison Janney 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
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I used to dance for seventeen years -classical ballet, which was very disciplined. I like yoga and Pilates, but I don't have… — Penelope Cruz Copy Share Image
You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls? — Greg Ray Copy Share Image
My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they… — Maria Karnilova 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
Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want… — Nina Ananiashvili Copy Share Image
The dance is the mother of the arts. Music and poetry exist in time; painting and architecture in space. But the dance… — Curt Sachs Copy Share Image
I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different… — Kiernan Shipka Copy Share Image
'Petrushka' was not conceived as a children's ballet, even though it involves puppets. We're on the outer limits of what's child-appropriate here. — John de Lancie 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
“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
On an ideal Saturday night, I'll go to the New York City Ballet, where my friends play percussion. — Molly Yeh Copy Share Image
Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose. — Richard Saunders Copy Share Image
My parents were passionate about the ballet. They always played ballet music at home. — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
When you are confronted with an opera, you have to keep an eye on everything: the musicians, the chorus, the ballet, the… — Placido Domingo Copy Share Image
I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years. — Elisabeth Moss 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
