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
dance serious normal
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
children hiking ballet
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
class ballet firsts
Treat each class as if it were your first.
ballet moments
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
dancing desire
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
art class models
Of course, in the art class, I was the model.
people feelings theater
Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.
dance thinking important
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.
dance wall dancing
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.
people ballet needs
When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.
eye light ballet
When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.
sister thinking two
I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way.
latin interesting people
I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be.
careers choices doubt
I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes.