Dance Quote by Justin Peck

The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with…

— Justin Peck

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 think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world.

— Amanda Schull

It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm…

— Brian Dennehy

It's going to take a while before we see a real shift in the students and the dancers that are going into professional companies…

— Misty Copeland

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men:…

— George Balanchine

“In every dance movie ever made—and I knew because I’d seen them all at least ten times—the two leads fall in love.”

— Una LaMarche

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

— Robert Gottlieb

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as…

— Twyla Tharp

“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images…

— Ramsay Burt

I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I'd love it if…

— Jessica Brown Findlay

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