Ballet Quote by Justin Peck

I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you…

— Justin Peck

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a…

— 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 can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music…

— George Balanchine

For a long time everyone had a stereotype of ballet that it was easy and that we were just prancing around. But thanks to…

— Francesca Hayward

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

— Sutton Foster

I've learned that there are many people out there who want to feel powerful and strong on their own terms, who want to tune…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And…

— John Guare

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity…

— Anna Paskevska

When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all…

— Pina Bausch

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

— Jennifer Ellison

An artistic standpoint - I've watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find…

— Nathan Chen