Ballet Quotes - Page 5

In order to dance well, nothing is so important as the turning outwards of the thigh; and nothing is so natural to men as the contrary position.

It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.

This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.

Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.

There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.

At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.

I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.

You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!

There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit.

A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.

Don't you think you're quite young?' 'I'm twenty-one,' said Brida. 'If I wanted to start learning ballet, I'd be conseidered too old.

Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.

The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15

I don't try to dance better than anybody but myself.

If the simple positions of ballet are demonstrated straight on, they seem quite dull and lifeless, but when put on a diagonal, they begin to take on all kinds of possibilities.

you...are...a...frige...with...wings...we...are...freaking...ballet...dancers!