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I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.
When I'm doing well, it's like I'm in a nice little ballet. Everything is going slow all around me. It's very peaceful.
You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up.
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.
I'd quit ballet school, which I thought was going to be my path, but my gut instinct told me to do something different.
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.
Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.
I eat healthily, I do ballet and exercise, and I'm toned and tight, but I take up space, and I don't aspire to anorexia.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.
What's so wonderful about ballet is that it's mind-driven physicality. It's almost a Greek ideal of body, mind, and form.
Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped foot in a ballroom.
Ballet can be hard on your joints, and when you're on a movie set doing take after take, it can become really repetitive.
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
I always knew I was a bit different from my friends, had too much energy, and suddenly I could get it all out with ballet.
So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.
When life takes me on a new journey, I simply remember the smile my first ballet recital put on my face and I move forward.
I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!
After I finished 'Center Stage,' I went back to San Francisco, and I danced for seven seasons with the San Francisco Ballet.
Ballet Beautiful has made my pregnancy a joy. I've avoided back pain and swelling by keeping my core strong and body moving.
When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
I think it was important that I learned to love to dance eventually for its own sake, as opposed to wanting to be a ballerina.
At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.
My parents have always been open to me trying new things, whether it's yoga or ballet or tap or jazz or piano or horse riding.
You never advance without losing something en passant... you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.
It definitely wasn't cool in junior high, when everyone else is trying out for cheerleading, to have a life consumed by ballet.
The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.
A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.
I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped me in music.
I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.
I think that ballet and skating definitely go hand in hand, especially growing up at Ballet West, which is an incredible academy.
I think Hong Kong's ballet audience is very sophisticated in the sense that they are able to find the beauty in good performances.
I've always been a figure skater and ballet dancer. I love physical comedy, and any chance that I get to do that... that is so me.
Ballet needs figures that people can recognize and relate to. People don't know ballet dancers as well as they know other artists.
I try and avoid cardio because it makes me lose a lot of weight. Instead, I do resistance training, model fit workouts, and ballet.
I can remember being very keen to go to drama school at the age of eight, and practising ballet in my bedroom to Queen soundtracks.
Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.