Dance Quote by Ninette de Valois Download Open image “All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.” — Ninette de Valois ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dance Europe Folks Fundamentals Steps Western
It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity… — Anna Paskevska Copy Share Image
Ballet is a classically based art form, so it comes with a certain set of rules, at least to start with; then it's about… — Justin Peck Copy Share Image
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique, not a way of doing things, but a means of expression that comes perhaps more closely to the inner language… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other. — George Borodin Copy Share Image
Classical dancing has always been the stepping stone of every dancer's life. — Shakti Mohan Copy Share Image
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually… — Neve Campbell Copy Share Image
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form. — Edward Villella Copy Share Image
You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
We are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will… — Ninette de Valois Copy Share Image
When you go to a club it's not about being black or white or heavy or thick. I'm shaking my ass because I want… — Miley Cyrus Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time. — Stromae Copy Share Image
I studied all kinds of dance, all types of music. I got good grades. I started hitting the recording studio around 13. — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
I like Sam Smith and Taylor Swift. I love pop music, but I also like Sam Smith's slow songs. That would be more to… — Maddie Ziegler Copy Share Image
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly… — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
Everything in dancing is style, allusion, the essence of many thoughts and feelings. The abstraction of many moments. — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
My body was so instrumental to how I took pictures: it was practically a dance. I used to use my legs a lot; now… — Annie Leibovitz Copy Share Image
I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance. — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
If you dance, you dance because you have to. Every dancer hurts, you know. — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
