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
assemble dancers everywhere god steal
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.
dancer born
One is born to be a great dancer.
dance ballet stories
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell ... we can't dance synonyms.
dance clouds trousers
I am a cloud - in trousers.
dance unions muse
My muse must come to me on union time.
dance teacher medicine
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
dance ballet masterpiece
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?
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
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