Quotes about ballet
ballet curious dancers eternal exist few grab others repertoire thrive
Many dancers are content with the repertoire they're given. Others are dissatisfied but don't know why. Then there are a few like me that are curious and grab at everything. Can that curiosity thrive in the ballet world, or should it exist elsewhere? That's the eternal question. David Hallberg
ballet sang
My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group. Jessica White
ballets beautiful loved seemed takes work
When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds. Patricia McBride
ballet came change company dancing devoted great liked loved presence trusted
Mr. Balanchine was a great gentleman, and he loved his dancers. He was devoted to his company. He came to the ballet every night, and his presence was felt. It was like the whole company was dancing for him. And if he liked you, he trusted you to be yourself. He didn't try to change you and make you into something you were not.
ballets
The ballets you do make you into the final product you are. And I had extraordinary partners.
ballets cherish
I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
ballet earn money shall spends stuck
As ye sow, so shall ye reap. When a ballet company spends a lot of money on gimmicky pieces, it's stuck with them for a while - they have to earn their keep. Robert Gottlieb
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The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
ballet dancers eternal good mysteries people perform plain pure supposedly untalented work
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?
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I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition. Jennifer Grey
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I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers. William Shakespeare
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When I was about 12, I was studying Chinese and ballet with my brother, and one morning Jonathan said to me, 'I don't think I'm going to go to ballet class anymore,' and I looked at him and said, 'You know, I don't think I'm going to go to Chinese class anymore.'
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The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
ballet child easy expressive found music variety
All the music from the ballet I found to be expressive and easy on the ears. I like variety . . . I am a child of too much television. James Buckley
ballet fields consciousness
The state of least excitation of consciousness is the field of all possibilities. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
ballet excuse
Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher
ballet listening body
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. John Guare
ballet fans highbrow horror itself love signifies whom
Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror. James Wolcott
ballet quit
I actually quit ballet when I was 14,
ballet dancing depending simple
Another fascinating aspect, ... is that it can be a completely different ballet depending on who's dancing it. It's so simple but it's so revealing, and it can tell such completely different stories.
ballet dancers majority prepared rangers secure team
Rangers have a team of highly-paid ballet dancers these days. The majority of them are already financially secure for life, yet they are not prepared to give anything in return. They are a disgrace.
ballet dancing folk school student
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
ballet creative hard ruin skating
They said skating would ruin my ballet form. It wasn't hard for me to choose. I'm very creative and in skating I can make up my own stuff.
ballets risk
You don?t see many full-length ballets being made like this, because the risk is so great.
ballet further innovator perception relentless
There really is a perception that if you know the ballet studies, you know Degas. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. Like Picasso, Degas was a relentless innovator in everything he did -- in drawing, in printmaking, in photography.
ballet took
I took ballet for a while and it wasn't like, jumpy enough for me.
ballet hardest hardest-thing
The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad. Elle Fanning
ballet crafts given
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding. Jennifer Ellison
ballet knew sports
The thing about ballet that I never knew about is that it's one of the most excruciating sports that I've ever been a part of. I say sports because they train constantly, every single day. Mila Kunis
ballet good loved music passionate soon
I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl. Cherie Lunghi
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The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.
ballet draw formal interested love might title type
Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff. Jeff Bridges
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Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.