Best 390 quotes in «ballet quotes» category

I actually was a ballet dancer - I studied ballet from three until 13 - but like very seriously, that's what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a contemporary ballet dancer. I wanted to go to Juilliard.

I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

I am a cloud - in trousers.

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

I am not an educated person. I didn't come up through a ballet company. I came up through burlesque. So I have a lot of inferiority feelings concerning my own lack of education, my entry into show business. I'm not a Baryshnikov. I'm not a Nureyev. I came up in vaudeville. Strippers. So I've always had these feelings. But I think they've also helped me.

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

I began with dance, doing ballet at 3, then tap, jazz, modern. Then I sang in church choirs, learned how to play clarinet and drums, sang with rock bands and only then did I get into musical theatre.

I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

I consider myself an actress first, a dancer second, and a singer third. Why? Because the dancer needs a reason to move-that's the actor informing the dancer. So I worked on my acting and gradually developed a singing voice.

I danced with passion to spite the music.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.

I didn't speak a single word of English when I was told that I was one of the lucky students been selected to go to study at the Houston Ballet Academy. I knew I had to study hard in every aspect, in both language and dance, which I did. I put my whole heart and soul into each minute of my day while in America and what an experience those six weeks gave me.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.

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? I don't know.

I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

If we don't take that time (to be romantic), then it's karate, then it's ballet, and then there's Christmas, and then my husband is flying off to tour around the world.

I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre.

I grew up learning ballet and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

I grew up in Honolulu. It's not the ballet cultural mecca by any stretch of the imagination. People are much more familiar with hula than they are with ballet.

I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

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 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 have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.

I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.

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.