Balance Quote by Mary Helen Bowers

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

— Robert Gottlieb

Ballerinas are often divided into three categories: jumpers, turners and balancers.

— Robert Gottlieb

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

Besides helping you to form a beautiful flat tummy, strong abdominal muscles will improve your balance and coordination as well as help you perform…

— Denise Austin

Balance is compromise. Of the muscles.

— Hortense Calisher

Ballet targets smaller muscles that you don't often use - instead of working your quads, it works the inside and the back of your…

— Mary Helen Bowers

The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability…

— Bruce Lee

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

When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

— Maris Liepa

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

A ballerina takes steps given to her and makes them her own. Each individual brings something different to the same role,

— Maria Tallchief

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