Balanchine Quotes
8 quotes by 8 authors
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Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil…
— Arthur Mitchell
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I'm born originally in Toronto, and I have what I call my 'Fame' story. I took a Greyhound bus and went to Alvin Ailey and…
— Laurieann Gibson
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There was a stage when Balanchine and I didn't talk. I was trying to develop my classical technique as opposed to the fast-track technique that…
— Gelsey Kirkland
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I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
— Twyla Tharp
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Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization…
— Susan Sontag
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I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.
— Bob Fosse
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If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three…
— Arlene Croce
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Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her…
— Robert Gottlieb
Who Wrote These Balanchine Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 8 Balanchine Quotes as follows: