Black Quote by Natalia Makarova

“As the last curtain falls on a spent year, a new year pirouettes to center stage with the elegance and charm of a prima…

— Peggy Toney Horton

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

— Robert Gottlieb

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in…

— Robert Caro

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

— Karen Kain

What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of…

— Robert Gottlieb

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 like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty…

— Robert Caro

“if ballet were easier, it would be called football.”

— ANONOMOUS

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

— Justin Peck

“Marius’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream will close the season for us, and it’s a world premiere, so there will be much fanfare, for the…

— Meg Howrey

I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something 'contemporary' or…

— Justin Peck

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

— Agnes de Mille