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Classical ballet will never die.
Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.
So it takes years to make a solid company.
The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
Joy is a strength; intoxication, a weakness.
The beauty to which the Dance ought to aspire
Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours.
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
If dance wasn't in my life, it wouldn't be worth living.
Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average
The dancer gradually introduces all that his art comprises.
It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas
Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.
I grew up in Denver, Colorado. After high school I went to Vegas.
There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent.
You can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
The Dance is an art because it demands vocation, knowledge, and ability.
The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.
Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull.
My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
I like to do cover songs if I really love them, I have to love the song first.
Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.
Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing.
To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.
I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows
I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows.
And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.
If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didnt do them myself.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself.
The beautiful always retains the freshness of novelty, while the astonishing soon grow tiresome.
As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves.
It is a fine art because it strives for an ideal, not only in plastic but also in lyrical respect.
The purpose of art is higher than art. What we are really interested in are masterpieces of humanity.
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes.
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
It is a fact that all the ballet's fundamental dance steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.
The height of artistic skill is to know how to conceal the mechanical effort and strain beneath harmonious calm.
Art is a form of intelligence, it can be developed, it's linked to intuition and it's something that all humans have
It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.
I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.
I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.