Arise Quote by Maureen Corrigan

I have always been secretly obsessed with ballet - in awe of the discipline, the physicality, the poise and grace. Behind the perfectly placed…

— Angela Scanlon

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

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

Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into…

— Anonymous

I started realizing that one of the great things about opera is that if you make the right kind of story, you can still…

— Tod Machover

I've learned that there are many people out there who want to feel powerful and strong on their own terms, who want to tune…

— Mary Helen Bowers

There is a clearing for new creative thought in choreography. I don't feel intimidated; there is a lot I can do that is new…

— Justin Peck

Being a dancer I've got the idea that through discipline and hard work, you can develop the ability to be in a different dimension…

— Thierry Mugler

Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much…

— John Simon

Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination…

— Lincoln Kirstein

My choreography is very classically based.

— Justin Peck

For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of…

— Darcey Bussell