Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player. — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
