Absurd Quote by Benjamin Millepied

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

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

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a…

— Justin Peck

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

— Misty Copeland

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

— Misty Copeland

I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.

— Justin Peck

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering…

— Robert Gottlieb

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited…

— Jack Anderson

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

— Robert Gottlieb

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of…

— Darcey Bussell

I want to show that black people can dance ballet as well as white people.

— Michaela DePrince