Back Quote by Mary Helen Bowers

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 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 opens up the chest and the arms and elongates the body, so you carry yourself straighter. That's so important for a model. But…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by…

— Shirley MacLaine

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 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

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

— George Borodin

My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet.…

— Misty Copeland

With ballet, you're really focused on the inner thigh and butt and just lifting and lengthening everything, including your arms. You're not using weights,…

— Mary Helen Bowers

I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like…

— Rita Ora

The muscles that are used in Ballet Beautiful are similar to those used in classic ballet. They're also muscles that don't get used very…

— Mary Helen Bowers

Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.

— Sylvie Guillem