Ballet Quotes - Page 11

To many a youth and many a maid, dancing in the chequer'd shade.

Always the question for dancers is: Can we fly?

I had to learn that slower is faster If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy.

Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

I give myself a Pilates/yoga hybrid mat class almost every day. I also continue to take ballet classes. Both of these practices help me to be aware of my body, my center, and how I move, both with my physical space and my mental space.

To dance is to give channel to the Creator.

I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.

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.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.

In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.

Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.

He was a punk, she did ballet. What more can I say.

I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.