Best 390 quotes in «ballet quotes» category

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

I learned how to communicate and articulate myself from ballet. It's just insane to me, when they don't think of that as a part of our education.

I liked the structure of ballet.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do.

I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.

I'm more intrigued by things that I haven't really conceived of yet. I have the luxury of being able to think: "I've never done a ballet or an animated film myself." There are certain things that I feel I'd love to. I just want to keep trying new things and seeing if I'm any good at them, and if I'm not, then at least learning that. I definitely think I'm more interested in what medium I can explore right now than any specific story.

I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.

In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.

In order to dance professionally, you have to start at a young age. No matter what, your muscle structure and your bones have to be groomed from a very young age. Nobody wakes up at 17 and decides to become a ballet dancer. I'm saying that and someone's going to be born tomorrow who decides to do that and I'm going to have my foot in my mouth.

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.

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

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.

I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.

I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.

I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.

It takes ten years, usually, to make a dancer. It takes ten years of handling the instrument, handling the material with which you are dealing, for you to know it completely.

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.