Ballet Quote by George Balanchine

We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of…

— George Balanchine

My choreography is very classically based.

— Justin Peck

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And…

— John Guare

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am…

— Misty Copeland

When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose…

— Gene Kelly

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all…

— Pina Bausch

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a…

— Justin Peck

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity…

— Anna Paskevska

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

— Remo D'Souza

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually…

— Neve Campbell