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- At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to…
- Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.
- Even if you weren't born with a genetically perfect body, you can take something like a hand, where everyone has the same capabilities, and you…
- I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea,…
- Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.
- One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal body…
- Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love.
- I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.
- The greater the fool the better the dancer.
- I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.
- Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.
- I started Ballet at a very young age and I was captivated immediately. It became my voice, means to overcome those final barriers to expressing…
- Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.
- The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet,…
- I did community theater in Georgia and called myself a ballet dancer.
- When Disney was creating Elsa, they based a lot of her movements on that of a ballerina, which was interesting for me to find out…
- I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre…
- My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a…
- Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!
- Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever.
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