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Back in high school, about two years ago, I was in this silly punk band called Ballet for Athletes. We were all trying to take it seriously, and then I realized that "punk" and "serious" aren't really two words you can put in the same sentence - at least, in my opinion.

Ballet found me. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced, my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually [...] train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

Ballet.something pure in this crazy world

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are.

Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement

Ballet in the air... Twin butterflies until, twice white They Meet, they mate

Ballet is only good when it is great.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.

Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible

Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.

Beauty, like male ballet dancers, makes some men afraid.

Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested.

Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.

Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.

Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.

Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

Both costume and fashion are about telling a story, except that in a ballet the story has already been written by the composer or the librettist.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

Classical ballet will never die.

Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don't want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it's the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

Dance exists first on this primordial level, not on an intellectual plane (even though it requires skill and intelligence). Its inmost substance cannot be reasoned, only experienced.

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Dancing allows me to explore myself in so many ways, to learn about my limitations and strengths, my ability to cope with adversity and to go farther than I thought I could. You find out what you're made of.

Dancing is an excellent amusement for young people, especially for those of sedentary occupations. Its excellence consists in exciting a cheerfulness of the mind, highly essential to health; in bracing the muscles of the body, and in producing copious perspiration.....The body must perspire, or must be out of order.

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.