Ballet Quote by George Balanchine Download Open image “In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.” — George Balanchine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Complicated Dance Impossible Stories Synonym
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery. — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. — George Borodin Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible. — Agnes De Mille Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular effort, the… — Jose Limon Copy Share Image
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
All dance has expression. If there is no expression, I prefer the circus. The performers do more dangerous, more difficult technical things than we… — Luis de la Fuente Copy Share Image
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is. — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal… — Fernando Bujones Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
What I love most about ballet is being able to express my emotions through dance, and to be able to bring others joy through… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
