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Ballet Quotes by Robert Gottlieb
- In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life,…
- Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
- Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
- The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
- Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
- One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it.…
- City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
- You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the…
- Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.
More Ballet Quotes
- The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's… — Fred Astaire
- I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet. — Amy Adams
- Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. — George Balanchine
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. — Ritchie Blackmore
- You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. — Jeff Bridges
- You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case. — Deborah Bull
- Writing used to be my hobby, but now that it's my job, I have no hobby - except watching TV and laying… — Meg Cabot
- Endurance is patience concentrated. — Thomas Carlyle