As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body,… — Ann Hood Copy Share Image
The cat crossed the street daintily, pointing his feet like a ballet dancer, lifting them high as if his feet were too… — Vera Caspary Copy Share Image
My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine… — Will Kemp Copy Share Image
I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City. — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
I'm so happy that I ventured out beyond the Royal Ballet - which is my home, and I love it - but… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play… — Samantha Barks Copy Share Image
My way into everything was through the theater. There are so many plays that I saw growing up that just made me… — Pauline Chalamet Copy Share Image
When somebody takes themselves seriously that's fodder for comedy. I think every musician goes through certain periods of their career where they're… — Martin Kemp Copy Share Image
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I trained as a dancer when I was much younger, for a large amount of time, like 6 or 7 years. Not… — Vincent Cassel Copy Share Image
Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say,… — Dannii Minogue Copy Share Image
Ballet is a closed world and very rigid; MGM was a fairyland. You'd walk down the lot, seeing all these fabulous movies… — Cyd Charisse Copy Share Image
With ballet, you're really focused on the inner thigh and butt and just lifting and lengthening everything, including your arms. You're not… — Mary Helen Bowers Copy Share Image
My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
“O wayfarer! Yearn finds quench, not in meadows, seashores or altitude of mountain peaks; but when being and dance are one.” — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it.… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
I was ballet dancing at four, playing piano by six, and doing commercials by 12. When I was 21, I was on… — Roselyn Sanchez Copy Share Image
What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the… — Dianna Agron Copy Share Image
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a… — Julie Harris Copy Share Image
When I was filming in Budapest for ITV's 'Titanic,' I realised I'd never been to the ballet before so decided to see… — Ruth Bradley Copy Share Image
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet,… — Rachel Corrie Copy Share Image
I went to Westside School of Ballet in L.A. and I was climbing through the ranks. Then I got to pointe shoes… — Helene Yorke Copy Share Image
I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children.… — Elizabeth Debicki Copy Share Image
He was a boy, she was a girl, Can I make it any more obvious? He was a punk, she did ballet,… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
When I became a principal at the Royal Ballet it was my childhood goal, a dream and I became it at 19.… — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed… — Cathy Marie Buchanan Copy Share Image
It's a very insular world, ballet. I feel if I had stayed much longer, it would've consumed me. I performed six days… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Even if you weren't born with a genetically perfect body, you can take something like a hand, where everyone has the same… — Sarah Lamb Copy Share Image
Dance design is not simply one element; it is that without which ballet cannot exist. As aria is to opera, words to… — Lincoln Kirstein Copy Share Image
The vocabulary and manner of classical ballet express a high order of discipline and restraint, a sense of harmony with forces larger… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to dance and when I was eight, I started ballet lessons at a church hall. They all… — Arlene Phillips Copy Share Image
Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list --… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing… — Arlene Croce Copy Share Image
