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I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.
I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.
You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage.
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
At age 10, I was better at ballet than I think I will ever be at any physical activity for the rest of my life.
I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.
I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.
My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.
My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.'
When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer... The people I loved were a little different.
I come alive, in front of the mirror, skipping and dancing and acting the fool. Dance is both escape and excitement.
My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.
I didn't know if I could act, but I knew I could be a great ballet dancer, and Balanchine put out the carpet for me.
I wanted to be a ballet dancer. I was bad - I'm not very coordinated. But I always wished I could have been a dancer.
I have a personal trainer. But I tried boxing; I tried ballet. I tried everything to see what works best for my body.
When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
Ballet is a finite art - your body won't let you do it forever, so I wanted to do it while I could.
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.
My muse must come to me on union time.
In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.
The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
The abuse of the best things is always detrimental.
I danced with passion to spite the music.
It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible.
I want to share the ballet world with everyone.
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.