Certain Technical Quotes by George Balanchine

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George Balanchine has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
• One is born to be a great dancer.
• The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is…
• The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
• I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
• They are poets of gesture.
• Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.
• I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is.…
• Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because…
• See the music, hear the dance.
• Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other…

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