"The defect in wisdom and taste which exists……" — Jean-Georges Noverre
"The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply themselves only to the material side of their art, they learn to jump more or less high, they strive mechanically to execute a number of steps, and like children, who utter a great many words devoid of sense and relation, they execute many phrases of steps devoid of taste and grace."
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Jean-Georges Noverre
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19 Quotes by Jean-Georges Noverre
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This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
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Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of…
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In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so…
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The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
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True art consists in concealing art.
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It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please…
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A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.
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If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is…
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At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which…
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I cannot avoid condemning all those who, from self-conceit have the pretension to imitate great artists of the past. If…
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In order that our art may arrive at the degree of the sublime which I demand and hope for, it…
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Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
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