"They are poets of gesture." — George Balanchine

"They are poets of gesture."

— George Balanchine

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32 Quotes by George Balanchine

George Balanchine has 32 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…
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that…
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.
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…
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with…
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…
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance

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More Dancing Quotes

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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of… — Fred Astaire
Mathematics was hard, dull work. Geography pleased me more. For dancing I was quite enthusiastic. — John James Audubon
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. — Marcus Aurelius
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love. — Jane Austen
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance. — Dave Barry
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
Dancing is my obsession. My life. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human… — Charles Baudelaire
At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces.… — Jean Baudrillard

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