"We must first realize that dancing is an……" — 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 the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. 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 as it is with the work of a magician."
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George Balanchine
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32 Quotes by George Balanchine
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
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One is born to be a great dancer.
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the…
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The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
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I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
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They are poets of gesture.
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Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.
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I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the…
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Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with…
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See the music, hear the dance.
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Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are…
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I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance
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