America Quote by Robert Gottlieb

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

— Mary Helen Bowers

In the Thirties, when I was in New York, I did the first surrealistic ballet in a show of mine.

— Vincente Minnelli

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.

— Robert Gottlieb

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

— Clive Barnes

The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the Paris Opera…

— Sylvie Guillem

I actually came to New York when I was 12 and did ballet school for a little while. I was being groomed to be…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them.

— Ntozake Shange

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

— Leslie Caron

In the ballet studio, it was such an organized and disciplined environment, like I'd never had in my life. Seeing myself in the mirror,…

— Misty Copeland

I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model…

— Justin Peck

When I was filming in Budapest for ITV's 'Titanic,' I realised I'd never been to the ballet before so decided to see a production…

— Ruth Bradley

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited…

— Jack Anderson