I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that. — Rhiannon Giddens Copy Share Image
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for… — Karen Kain Copy Share Image
Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself. — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw. — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself. — Antony Tudor Copy Share Image
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter,… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
I love all of the ballets that have a really strong story in them where I get to play a character. I… — Francesca Hayward Copy Share Image
I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
I think that story ballets, as great as they might sell, they're a really dated and awkward medium to tell stories through.… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
There are some ballets you can do for a long time. With others, you have to know when to stop. Some are… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
“The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which… — Jack Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to do things I have never done. Like I recently went to 3 different ballets. And I loved trying to… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
Aren't all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan… — Robert Helpmann Copy Share Image
'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them. — Ntozake Shange Copy Share Image
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
