Alive Quote by John Guare

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of…

— Darcey Bussell

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just…

— John Guare

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human…

— John Guare

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited…

— Jack Anderson

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought…

— Robert Caro

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

— Margot Fonteyn

I'm not fond of the idea of doing ballet for ballet's sake, because dancers get exploited and they're not paid well. They do it…

— Sergei Polunin

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dancing is a very living art. It is essentially of the moment, although a very old art. A dancer's art is lived while he…

— Martha Graham

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

— Robert Gottlieb