Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrellis an eminent 20th-century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth16 August 1945
CountryUnited States of America
class dancing work-out
I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.
errors giving credit
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.
pain sacrifice dancing
There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.
commitment opportunity dancing
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
dancing healthy ballet
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
children dancing rebellious
Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child.
somewhere-else ungrateful wish
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
thinking dancer childhood
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
ballet care too-much
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.
mother high-heels play
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.
body situation amazing-things
The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
dancer unemotional
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
dance mean important
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.
real world way
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.