Quotes About Ballet

'Romeo and Juliet,' 'Manon,' 'Giselle' - they are not stupid stories. They have fantastic characters. They have a big package of emotion.

One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.

At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.

I danced with the Ballet Russe in Paris when I was 16 and did not need a companion.

I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

The colors of 'The Nutcracker' ballet score have become a part of the vocabulary of film music. It's where so much of the 19th-century romantic music that I call upon as a film composer is rooted.

'The Leaves Are Fading' had something of a vogue when Antony Tudor made it in 1975, largely because of Gelsey Kirkland's ravishing performance.

From the time I made my announcement that I was going to be an actor, I auditioned for community theater, did shows at Greenbrier, interned at the Cleveland Play House for a summer, took voice lessons, took ballet lessons. I did everything that Cleveland allowed me to do - everything that was available to me.

American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.

The force for change I represent is of course from being a mixed-race ballerina.

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

As a child, I had been told that I was exactly what a ballerina should be.

I love nutcrackers, as I was a ballerina growing up.

Manon' still feels like it didn't really happen, because it is such a mammoth ballet and I can't believe I did that.

I was from Washington, D.C., and then I came to New York and got the scholarship for the ballet.

I've always just done ballet, and I feel like I'm sort of living the dream.

I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.

At aged eleven, you're learning taking criticism every day and making it a positive thing - otherwise you will never make it in ballet.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

I did ballet when I was a kid.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think?