Aria Quote by Lincoln Kirstein

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 not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

— George Borodin

Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language…

— Anonymous

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

— Robert Gottlieb

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

— Shirley MacLaine

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

When I would create a dance, I wouldn't have the luxury that ballet people do when they take a piece of music and impose…

— Gene Kelly

Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully, and with inevitability. Dance is the only art of which we…

— Anonymous

To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10 years that…

— Misty Copeland

Since ballet has such a solid classical framework, everything is supposed to be a very specific way, so you learn to look at things…

— Sonoya Mizuno

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

Opera is the ultimate art form. It has singing and music and drama and dance and emotion and story.

— Diane Paulus