All kinds Quote by Lucinda Childs

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

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

The diagonal gives a three-dimensional feeling to dancers that cannot be achieved when they are only front and back. On the diagonal, more movement…

— Lucinda Childs

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually…

— Neve Campbell

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

— Robert Caro

Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about…

— Justin Peck

Ballet requires movements which are very unnatural. With every step, you do a circular movement of the hip. You turn out from the hip…

— Darcey Bussell

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

— Robert Caro

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

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in…

— Matthew Bourne

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

— George Borodin