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A brand-new pair of toe shoes presents itself to us as an enemy with a will of its own that must be tamed.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
From the age of four, I loved ballet and tap. I was in the school band, the choir, and all my school plays.
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
Instead of watching cartoons when I was little, I had Russian ballet videos from, like, the 1950s and 1940s.
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.
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward.
I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.
Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.
I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.
I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.
Without dancing you can never attain a perfectly graceful carriage, which is of the highest importance in life.
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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.
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
Ballet is hard enough when you go with it; when you have to force your body to do things, it is so much harder.
I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it.
My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.
I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace.
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.
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life ... It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.
There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life.
My genuine passion for dance was born watching Ballet Rambert perform Christopher Bruce's harrowing 'Ghost Dances.'
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.
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.
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.
Manon' still feels like it didn't really happen, because it is such a mammoth ballet and I can't believe I did that.
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.
Being in ballet school and being in leotards in front of a mirror I don't know how many hours a day was quite tough.
When movement becomes ecstatic, then this is dance. When the movement is so total there is no ego, then it is dance.
I was used to having a job - ballet was my job, and I felt like I needed something artistic to focus on after I quit.
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.
I'll never be satisfied in classical ballet. It'll never be good enough. I'll never be happy with most of my product.
I believe that I definitely developed into a refined and graceful woman due to ballet. It has shaped me in every way.
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.
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.
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.