Audience Quote by Misty Copeland

I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.

— Misty Copeland

For a long time everyone had a stereotype of ballet that it was easy and that we were just prancing around. But thanks to…

— Francesca Hayward

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in…

— Matthew Bourne

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when…

— Kiernan Shipka

I think that having a platform and having a voice to be seen by people beyond the classical ballet world has really been my…

— Misty Copeland

I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.

— Justin Peck

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am…

— Misty Copeland

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

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a…

— Justin Peck

I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more out of…

— Justin Peck

I love all of the ballets that have a really strong story in them where I get to play a character. I don't enjoy…

— Francesca Hayward

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

— Maureen O'Hara