Ballet Quote by Robert Gottlieb

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of…

— Misty Copeland

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

— Sylvie Guillem

The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the…

— Gerald Arpino

You have to have tunnel vision as a dancer to get to where you're going. But once you get there, you have to save…

— Ann Reinking

When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has all the…

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.

— Chita Rivera

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who…

— Alonzo King

One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have the ideal…

— Fernando Bujones

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 find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

— Twyla Tharp

When they do let them sustain on screen from head to toe, though, then you know they must think the person is a good…

— Gene Kelly