The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!
When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.
Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.
Ballet is the fairies baseball.
You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.
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!
Swan Lake is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once!
I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?
When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.
Just as a child, before I ever knew what ballet was, there was something in me where I was always searching for something structured, something that was bigger than me, and something so historical that I could be a part of. I didn't find that until I stepped into the ballet world, and it was overwhelming, the feeling of being a part of something that's bigger than you.
I haven't seen so much tippy-toeing around since the last time I went to the ballet. When members of the arts community were askedthis week about one of their biggest benefactors, Philip Morris, and its requests that they lobby the New York City Council on the company's behalf, the pas de deux of self- justification was so painstakingly choreographed that it constituted a performance all by itself.
I want a big man physically as well as intellectually. l want a man with the thigh muscles to give me a good frolic in the sack, the kind who'll tear hell out of a thick steak, and yet who can go to the ballet with me and discuss Hegelian dialectic and know what the hell he's talking about.
The deep art. . . That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money. . . Like a dope addict would his dope. . . Like a lover with their love.
There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.