Quotes about ballet
ballet best dancers joined local studio tap
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.
ballet needs beats
If you wanna dance, a windshield wiper'll do it-all you need is a beat. Artie Shaw
ballet quality punk
He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say. Avril Lavigne
ballet emerged familiar found prejudices time trained
I am trained, and I did do 'The Nutcracker' in its right form, but at the time, they told me I was black and I'd never be in 'Swan Lake.' I went through all those prejudices in the ballet community, and I still emerged wonderfully trained and found my way to Alvin Ailey where there were familiar faces. Laurieann Gibson
ballet city love taken time
I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time. Kerry Greenwood
ballet car eat focused handful high senior
Me in high school, I was kind of a loner. I had a handful of friends. I'd eat my lunch in my car every day in my senior year. I went to ballet. I was a ballerina, so I was very focused on that. You kind of have to be. That was two-thirds of my week, going to ballet class. Olesya Rulin
ballet brings british confident dance english experience fine national powerful reputation wayne wealth
Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will make a powerful contribution to English National Ballet and to the British dance world.
ballet lessons negative
You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will. Buddy Ebsen
ballet rising world
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. Camille Paglia
ballet theatre opera
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. C. L. R. James
ballet bit
I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror. Abbey Clancy
ballet both busy gave hours house knew mom plan sports
My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice. Ashley Wagner
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
ballets counting difficult easy involved liked
I liked math. Counting was easy for me, which was good, because a lot of the ballets have involved difficult counts. Suzanne Farrell
ballet ballroom became dancer hours maybe practice upset
It upset me because I put in over 250 hours of practice for this show ... and just because I had ballet when I was a kid, maybe it helped, but I was never the kind of dancer that I became during this competition, and I had never done ballroom dancing. Stacy Keibler
ballet children fascinates ladies salon school sister talk together women
The world of women fascinates me, probably because my sister and I were always together as children in our mother's salon after school and after ballet classes. We used to talk about what we saw: the different ladies who would come in, all with their distinctive personalities. Monica Cruz
ballets good guarantees
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. Robert Gottlieb
ballet ballets company miller national perform russian several
Miller has had the Russian National Ballet perform several ballets over the years. They are an outstanding company of dancers.
ballet happened people
In the ballet world, obviously, people are small-breasted. On Broadway, what happened should be an attribute. Larry Klayman
ballet child clearly dangerous kids piano speak taking
If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting. Rose McIver
ballet fall finally great seemed short wanting work
I had been wanting to do a short ballet to Schumann's work for so long and we were finally able to get a great pianist, everything seemed to fall into place.
ballet sort tap
If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world. Sami Gayle
ballet belly button coach lessons needed opposed posture shoes skating study
I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move. Dorothy Hamill
ballet shooting saying-yes
I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it. Guy Maddin
ballet drag loving primary singing teacher
I had a really creative teacher at primary school. He used to get us doing things such as singing Spandau Ballet in drag in the choir, and I remember loving it. Dominic Cooper
ballet elements indian instead western
Instead of having a completely Western ballet, we have a ballet with elements of Indian dance.
ballet becomes breath environment good literally occupies royal school single works
Being in a place like the Royal Ballet School and part of an environment where there is so much discipline, where everyone works so hard, it just completely occupies your life. You literally live it and breath it every single day; it becomes who you are. And that, I think, is very good preparation for really anything you do in life. Will Kemp
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.
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 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.
ballets chance extreme
I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.
ballet life studied
I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life. Melora Hardin
ballet built change less lively watch
What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone. Terry Teachout