Ballet Quotes
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I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.
Caroline Shaw -
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
George Balanchine
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
Bill Tilden -
The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep.
Mikhail Baryshnikov -
People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
Claiborne Pell -
I want to have daughter, and if I do, I want to make sure she learns ballet.
G-Dragon -
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.
Margaret Qualley -
As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.
Ann Hood
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All the New York City Ballet does is hit beautiful home runs.
John Guare -
I still love to see the ballet. And I love to boogie.
Alicia Vikander -
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.
Darcey Bussell -
I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.
Leila Janah -
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.
Maria Karnilova -
I did ballet from the age of five, but what I loved was my gymnastics. I kept the ballet going because of the gymnastics, then found I was going to be too tall.
Darcey Bussell
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I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.
John Guare -
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.
Jacques d'Amboise -
One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.
Jean-Michel Jarre -
Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.
Gabe Polsky -
It'd be very difficult to cast me as a ballet dancer. Everybody is, in some sense, controlled by their size and their gender. I'm not going to be allowed to play the part that Denzel Washington plays.
Brian Dennehy -
The focus of our family life was homework and what was for dinner; getting to ballet rehearsal and getting my brother to soccer.
Lily Rabe
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It's very difficult for me to do fund raising for my own organization if I'm working for other companies because sponsors will say, 'Well, hey, man, if she's doing a ballet for Ballet Theatre, we'll give money to Ballet Theatre.'
Twyla Tharp -
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
Twyla Tharp -
I was raised with a lot of classical music. I loved ballet. I was a bun head for 10 years.
Elisabeth Moss -
I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.
Dorothy Hamill