Ballet Quote by Twyla Tharp Download Open image “I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.” — Twyla Tharp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ballet Dance Dancers Days Find Only Trained Well
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer. — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.. — Fred Astaire Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is. — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever. — Kelli Berglund Copy Share Image
I've trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt like I… — Susan Kelechi Watson Copy Share Image
I think that, like any kind of career, there are many different people involved in the ballet world. — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer. — Deborah Bull Copy Share Image
“A lot of habitually creative people have preparation rituals linked to the setting in which they choose to start their day. By putting themselves… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have learned over the years that you should never save for two meetings what you can accomplish in one. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I always find that the best collaborations are when you work with people that know what they're doing, and you leave them alone to… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't mean this, but I'm going to say it anyway. I don't really think of pop art and serious art as being that… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
The art of these Fifties movies was in sustaining forever the moment before sex. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
This is not a pleasant route for many young people to consider. You have to be either hopelessly passionate, or very stupid. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I often say that in making dances I can make a world where I think things are done morally, done democratically, done honestly. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I had received my first establishment grants in response to applications filed the year before. To the pages of baffling forms I had simply… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I don't think that scheduling is uncreative. I think that structure is required for creativity. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
I have always felt one of the things dance should do - its business being so clearly physical - is challenge the culture's gender… — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
There really is nothing I ever had access to that I didn't appreciate. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
“Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the… — Toni Bentley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before. — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain.… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance. — Ruth St. Denis Copy Share Image
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It… — Peter Martins Copy Share Image
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because… — Suzanne Farrell Copy Share Image
I'd rather be a guy that can build a house or fix a car than be able to walk like a ballet dancer. — Travis Fimmel Copy Share Image
When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet… — Misty Copeland Copy Share Image
You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to… — Patrick Swayze Copy Share Image
I only started writing in the latter days of Spandau Ballet. I didnt know I could write because all had our roles within the… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
