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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
dance insecure ballet
Even though I am a professional, and I know what the steps are, I don't quite know how I'm going to do them, because I haven't lived that moment yet. I always feel very insecure and I get very excited.
thinking hands ballet-class
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.
team player ballet
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.
american-dancer aware life react wonderful
The wonderful thing about life it that there will always be variables. You have to see them and be aware of them to know how to react to them.
I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument.