George Balanchine
George Balanchine
George Balanchinewas one of the 20th century's most prominent choreographers. Styled as the father of American ballet, he co-founded the New York City Ballet and remained its Artistic Director for more than 35 years...
NationalityRussian
ProfessionChoreographer
Date of Birth22 January 1904
CitySaint Petersburg, Russia
CountryRussian Federation
ballet speak
Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.
dance eye remember
The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician
fear want energy
I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.
dance ballet important
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.
dance
See the music, hear the dance.
dance long tree
It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.
dance art athlete
Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.
dance mirrors just-dance
The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.
dance made visible
Dance is music made visible
moving listening firsts
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
dance stealing ballet-teachers
God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...
beautiful dance looks
Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" *
dance thinking interesting
Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.
past
I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.