Ballet Quote by Michelle Trachtenberg

At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time…

— Natalia Yurchenko

Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.

— Carine Roitfeld

I take ballet class as often as possible - up to 5 times a week - and try to go to the gym on…

— Amanda Schull

It's a very insular world, ballet. I feel if I had stayed much longer, it would've consumed me. I performed six days a week…

— Amanda Schull

When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have…

— Laura Slade Wiggins

Ideally, a dancer should put in 10 hours of daily practice to deliver a polished performance.

— Shakti Mohan

We usually spend one hour per week on ballet but Marta Karolyi has us do a lot of compulsory floor in the morning practice.

— Kristie Phillips

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made…

— Ann Hood

I danced in corps de ballet for 11 hours a day. That was the hardest work I have ever done in my life. I…

— Sergei Polunin

When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.

— Margaret Qualley

I still dance, probably three times a week, unless I'm working on a crazy job, and then I just don't have any free time…

— Summer Glau

Classical ballet is very extreme. You're doing it six days a week, and it's a kind of obsession of perfecting a move. So every…

— Darcey Bussell