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My father had the curved feet, my mother the legs, so I am a bit of both.
When you are a kid, you find so much comfort in dancing. I was comforted.
I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
Working with a new style of choreography is always a period of adaptation.
Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.
I like creation even if it is a bit difficult. It is always very exciting.
Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
I have come to the conclusion that it is better to be silent than to speak.
I think with true passion you can do so much more than you think is possible.
As an artist, you have a choice. That gave me the freedom to do what I want to.
Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.
The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down.
I wake up and I do class straight away, so that gives me a free day to do things.
My body is very nice to me. I have a lucky physique - I just don't take weight on.
If I am out in the street or buying bread or taking a taxi, no one knows who I am.
My reputation precedes me all the time, but I'm not the monster people think I am.
I feel the ticking clock. And at times, I've said if I don't dance, I'd rather die.
The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don't, I will crumble.
As ballerinas, we don't use our voices. Our voice is the body and the movement quality.
All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.
For me, purity of movement wasn't enough. I needed expression, more intensity, more mind.
I feel like I'm getting stronger and stronger, and I don't practice as much as I used to.
People like eccentrics. Therefore they will leave me alone, saying that I am a mad clown.
I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now.
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
Technical perfection is insufficient. It is an orphan without the true soul of the dancer.
I wish I could, instead of destroying things like that, I wish I could build, build, build.
What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves.
You're terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.
It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'
I never dreamt of becoming a ballerina. I was just curious about it, it was something to explore.
There is a false idea that I am stubborn and do only what I want, but really, I am like a sponge.
When a real artist creates something, it has to be a necessity, the only way he can say something.
There was simply from this quite early age the awareness that the only thing I wanted was to dance.
If you open yourself as an artist, as a human being to this experience of growing, you grow anyway.
If you start dancing too young, it can be torture. The bone is too soft, and it is going everywhere.
Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do that.'
I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.
People thought I had no feelings, that I was hard. But really, I was extremely sensitive to everything.
Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.
We have a renewed energy and vigor in our supporters and we are no longer so frightened about the future.
Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.
When I grow up I am going to be a ballerina. I will be in Giselle. It will be so much fun being a ballerina.
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
Someone need not be perfect to be a great dancer - feeling a soul is more important than what the body can do.
If you are afraid of losing something, then you are dependent on it. If you are not afraid, then you are free.
If we keep on destroying fish, there won't be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It's as simple as that.
Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.