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
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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.
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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.
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I still feel like a 15 year-old girl coming to New York. Dancing does that to you. I think it keeps you really young.
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I was grateful that I had dancing to fall back on. It was my survival tactic. It was my friend. It was always there.
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To have been part of that evening -- and now I am truly honored and privileged. I loved dancing and how fortunate I am to have had a career I loved doing.
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It brought out in me the person whom I had the potential to become. I think that's why I loved it for its own sake, not to be a ballerina.
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My mother was very interested in giving her daughters the advantage of music and dance, if we had an interest in it. My father was not.
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And 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.
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I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
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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.
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I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
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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.
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I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
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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.