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All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.
Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
The first show I did was 'The Nutcracker' ballet. I was one of the kids who comes out in the beginning.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.
This art, born of genius and good taste, can become beautiful and varied to an infinite degree.
I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually.
Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet.
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.
The idea for 'Ballet Baby' started when I was going through my own pregnancy.
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had really knock knees.
Manon' still feels like it didn't really happen, because it is such a mammoth ballet and I can't believe I did that.
And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.
When you can't follow a ballet's action, you can always read the program notes.
Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.
I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted.
Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.
I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New York.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant.
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
Ballet is an incredible art, but it can be a bit elitist, which is a really big turn off to me.
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more out of it.
Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
Ballet Beautiful is a workout that transforms the body without overtaxing the system or joints.
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.
The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.
I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.
The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.
In a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a cour de ballet.
You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation.
I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.