Avant garde Quote by Ramsay Burt

The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with…

— Justin Peck

“Ballet isn’t pop culture, after all; it is an art of the chosen few, a selected elite, for those who understand it; and it…

— Catherine E. Pawlick

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

If our ballets be feeble, monotonous and dull, if they be devoid of ideas, meaning, expression and character, it is less the fault of…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

“I love ballet and am more interested in it than in anything else. . . . For the only form of scenic art that…

— Igor Stravinsky

American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.

— Justin Peck

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

— Kevin McKenzie

It's nice for me to have a ballet as a kind of platform for creativity, because unlike modern dance or contemporary dance or downtown…

— Sufjan Stevens

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

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

— Robert Gottlieb

In ballet, it doesn't matter who you are. If you're good, it's such a rare thing, so unusual, that the talent will go wherever…

— Francesca Hayward

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

— Amanda Schull