Complicated Quote by Natalia Makarova

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

— Dodie Smith

Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy...it becomes possible.

— Agnes De Mille

Dancing never becomes easy, just more possible // dance

— YOnik

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille

Every teacher will tell you that you cannot dance classical technique with perfection, there is no such thing, there is no way. So you…

— Jiri Kylian

The Dance can, with the aid of music, rise to the heights of poetry. On the other hand, through an excess of gymnastics it…

— August Bournonville

I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I…

— Dick York

Dance is an ephemeral, a fleeting art. To describe this momentum, every movement on stage, in words is virtually impossible.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

— Martha Graham

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jump,a more difficult…

— Abby Lee Miller

Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.

— Bebe Neuwirth