Beauty Quote by Matthew Bourne

'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength,…

— Benjamin Millepied

Aren't all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan around all…

— Robert Helpmann

I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly…

— Deborah Bull

Notes for a ballet, The Spell: ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon…

— Woody Allen

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

— Mary Helen Bowers

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

— George Borodin

In those days, male dancers were a rarer breed than women. as they are still today, A good male dancer, one as strong as…

— Twyla Tharp

Swans are majestic, beautiful looking creatures. With really ugly temperaments.

— Michael Gira

The eyes, hands and body movements are important to make the dance sexier.

— Seungri

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

“A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images…

— Ramsay Burt