Ballet Quote by Misty Copeland

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

— Misty Copeland

Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.

— Robert Gottlieb

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers -…

— Robert Gottlieb

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

I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you…

— Justin Peck

I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world.

— Amanda Schull

My philosophy on choreography is that the making of a ballet is a team effort, and we're in this together. It's not me hammering…

— Justin Peck

“Ballet aficionados are just sports fans in formal wear.”

— S. L. Price

My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.

— Justin Peck

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

— Bebe Neuwirth

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

— Misty Copeland