Ballets Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not… — Jean-Georges Noverre
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of the… — Jean-Georges Noverre
I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on… — Alan Bennett
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great… — Robert Caro
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. — Karen Kain
Art begs you to notice it. Why? Because art is God's way of saying hello. So pay attention to poetry. Pay attention to music. Pay… — Neale Donald Walsch
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw. — Bebe Neuwirth
The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from… — Gelsey Kirkland
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets. — Misty Copeland
The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother… — Jill Scott
Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. donâ€™t redeem what this particular civilization… — Susan Sontag
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 us… — Jack Anderson
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They… — George Balanchine
All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette de Valois
A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as… — Martha Graham
I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front… — Lucy Hawking
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. — Robert Gottlieb
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. — Robert Gottlieb
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of… — Robert Gottlieb

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