Ballet Quote by Twyla Tharp

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did…

— Twyla Tharp

Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers…

— Suzanne Farrell

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.

— Justin Peck

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did…

— Jean-Georges Noverre

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.

— Justin Peck

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

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet?…

— Mark Morris

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

Ballet is a healthy world despite what people might think. There's a perception that ballet dancers are skinny and unhealthy, but that's rubbish. You…

— Darcey Bussell

There's no agents or managers to represent them. Dancers don't have any voice. They have nothing. Nobody can afford a flat to live in.…

— Sergei Polunin