Ballet Quotes - Page 4

I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.

The once red leaf, the last of its clan, that dances as often as dance it can.

We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.

I'm steel-toed boots in a ballet-slipper world.

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

I am a cloud - in trousers.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Success comes from having a fulfilling experience and being inside the moment of that experience. Success does not come in retrospect or as a recollection or even as an evaluation from others. lt's not something that you can physically hold onto or repeat at will. Only when you acknowledge the special moments can you truly feel the effects of your most wonderful achievements.

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.

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!

Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for something structured, something that was bigger than me, and something so historical that I could be a part of. I didn't find that until I stepped into the ballet world, and it was overwhelming, the feeling of being a part of something that's bigger than you.

I think that I'm so fortunate to have found classical ballet. It completely changed my life and it shaped the person that I am today, on and off the stage.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?

Come knit hands, and beat the ground in a light fantastic round

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved

Ballet is only good when it is great.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

Even if you weren't born with a genetically perfect body, you can take something like a hand, where everyone has the same capabilities, and you can make it speak. You can make it speak in many different ways.

I know that I'll forever be involved in ballet. This is where my life was meant to be, and I don't see myself straying completely away, ever.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

I was used to dancing, but only when someone told you what to do. So in the nightclub I was all over the place, I combined everything. Street dance, modern dance, a bit of jazz and ballet, I was Twyla Tharp, I was Alvin Ailey, I was Michael Jackson. I didn't care, I was free.

Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.