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The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.
To change the world, you must first change yourself. And baby, that's hard enough.
However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.
One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.
I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes.
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.
I love fashion. It's actually - after ballet - my favourite thing since I was little.
Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
When we give ourselves over completely to the spirit of the dance, it becomes a prayer
When I was about five, I started dancing - like, tap and ballet - in one little class.
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
My training and ballet background definitely gives me the competitive edge on the ice.
During the day I pull on jeans and ballet flats; but I do love getting dressed up, too.
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time.
A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good head.
My mother and my father always had me in ballet and dance, and I sang in a girl's group.
When one lifts a ballerina, it is not her weight but her nature that causes the problem.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.
Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
Since my mom is the President of Ballet Hawaii, I'm always in touch with stuff going on.
A toe shoe is as eccentric as the ballerina who wears it: their marriage is a commitment.
I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didn't happen.
If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.
Physical fears change and shift depending on the role and depending on the mindset I'm in.
I realize how much ballet gave me, and because of ballet, I’m known as a graceful gymnast.
My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.
I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.
I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.
A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.
I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
If mutual fund directors are independent, then I'm the lead character in the Bolshoi Ballet.
Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.
I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.
I went to an all-boys school, where I played rugby, so ballet wasn't the coolest thing to do.