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“The very essence of ballet is poetic, deriving from dreams rather than from reality. About the only reason for its existence is to enable…

— Théophile Gautier

The dream was to be a prima ballerina.

— Stephanie Corneliussen

I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.

— Sylvie Guillem

I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you…

— Misty Copeland

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it…

— Sergei Polunin

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I've always just done ballet, and I feel like I'm sort of living the dream.

— Francesca Hayward

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet is a closed world and very rigid; MGM was a fairyland. You'd walk down the lot, seeing all these fabulous movies being made…

— Cyd Charisse

“Marius’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will close the season for us, and it’s a world premiere, so there will be much fanfare, for the…

— Meg Howrey

My dream is to continue dancing forever. I would kill myself if I didn’t dance.

— Maddie Ziegler

For a long time everyone had a stereotype of ballet that it was easy and that we were just prancing around. But thanks to…

— Francesca Hayward