Ballets Quotes
20 quotes by 17 authors
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I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw.
— Bebe Neuwirth
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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
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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
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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
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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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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
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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
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All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
— Ninette de Valois
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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
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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
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What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
— Robert Gottlieb
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Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.
— Robert Gottlieb
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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
Who Wrote These Ballets Quotes
17 authors contributed a total of 20 Ballets Quotes as follows: