Quotes About Ballet

I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.

I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.

Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.

It [ballet] projects a fragile kind of strength and a certain inflexible precision.

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Sir Kenneth MacMillan's version of 'Romeo and Juliet' is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev's breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin.

I think I tended toward the Russian training because my first teacher taught a version of Vaganova, and it was drilled into me that that was the best system, and also at the time there were a lot of great Russian stars.

I work out as little as I can for as much gain as I can. Yoga and a little bit of ballet -- only 30 or 40 minutes every other day. I keep supple for myself more than for roles.

Every girl - and boy, if you so choose - should take some ballet. Because ballet gives you grace. It gives you [the ability] to work with your hands. It's all about your hands.

I've been dancing all my life and studied at Joffrey Ballet when I was 13 and singing all my life.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.

I came to New York to study ballet and English.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

I grew up studying dance, taking ballet lessons.

Designing and creating dance clothes has taken my love for dancewear to a whole other level, melding the creative process with my daily fashion and allowing me to bring my most dreamed-about ballet styles to life.

I always looked at the process and the career of being a ballerina as sacred. It's a true gift to have this talent and perform these masterworks; it's sublime.

There's only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You're basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

My sisters did ballet when we were younger and I remember sitting in the car with my dad and going 'can we hurry up and go surfing!?, I'm sick of waiting for my sisters and their ballet classes.'