Quotes about ballet
ballet crazy graceful love
If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that. Sierra McCormick
ballet quit
I actually quit ballet when I was 14,
ballet happened people
In the ballet world, obviously, people are small-breasted. On Broadway, what happened should be an attribute. Larry Klayman
ballet believed classes gave three took
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
ballet celebrate company happy landmark open point turning work
The ballet was a turning point for the company when it premiered in 1972 and I am happy to be able to celebrate this landmark work as we open in our new home. Karen Kain
ballet controlled emotional given listen wonder
The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force. John Guare
ballet biggest classical hold represents standard
It's probably one of the biggest cornerstones in the classical repertoire. It represents a standard of classical ballet that we still hold high.
ballet inevitable lines moment planet
It's inevitable at a Lines Ballet performance: that moment when you wonder, what planet am I on?
ballet ballroom became dancer hours maybe practice upset
It upset me because I put in over 250 hours of practice for this show ... and just because I had ballet when I was a kid, maybe it helped, but I was never the kind of dancer that I became during this competition, and I had never done ballroom dancing. Stacy Keibler
ballet children fascinates ladies salon school sister talk together women
The world of women fascinates me, probably because my sister and I were always together as children in our mother's salon after school and after ballet classes. We used to talk about what we saw: the different ladies who would come in, all with their distinctive personalities. Monica Cruz
ballet versailles
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started. Neve Campbell
ballet body way
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
ballet trying modern
I got the part [in Into the Forest], I started taking ballet again to try to regain my strength back. I actually love that it was changed to Crystal Pite's modern dance. And I wouldn't even really call it modern dance because it feels like it's in its own genre. Evan Rachel Wood
ballet likes modern
If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know. Mark Morris
ballet musical opera
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet. Ned Rorem
ballet heritage steps
Americans will be amazed to find ho many of the modern dance steps are relics of the African heritage. Paul Robeson
ballet technique timing
Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.
ballet fans highbrow horror itself love signifies whom
Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror. James Wolcott
ballet listening body
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
ballet became career exposed genius gone last living national realized time
The last time I had to make a career decision, I was 17. I could have gone to Ballet Theatre or National Ballet of Canada. There were options. But as I became exposed to the Robbins repertoire, I realized that there was a living genius in the house.
ballet child easy expressive found music variety
All the music from the ballet I found to be expressive and easy on the ears. I like variety . . . I am a child of too much television. James Buckley
ballet excuse
Never excuse yourself. Henry Ward Beecher
ballet took
I took ballet for a while and it wasn't like, jumpy enough for me.
ballet dance related role
It was a role that Mr. Fosse would have gravitated toward, a role he would have done if he was a ballet dancer. He related to it because it was dance used as theater.
ballet good similar
I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position. Carine Roitfeld
ballet hour less means morning
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
ballet boys class dating discovered everybody five freak guy life parents until
When I was five years old, I told my parents that I wanted to take ballet. So, ballet was the focus of my life... until puberty. Then I discovered boys and started dating a guy with a mohawk who'd come to my ballet class and freak everybody out. Shortly after that is when I quit. Chandra West
ballet distance environmental pet store teacher woman
I want to be a lawyer, a dancer, an actress, a mother, a wife, a children's author, a distance runner, a poet, a pianist, a pet store owner, an astronaut, an environmental and humanitarian activist, a psychiatrist, a ballet teacher, and the first woman president. Rachel Corrie
ballet brings british confident dance english experience fine national powerful reputation wayne wealth
Wayne brings with him a wealth of experience and a fine reputation and I am confident that he will make a powerful contribution to English National Ballet and to the British dance world.
ballet theatre opera
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance. C. L. R. James
ballet donald example excited include oregon parts season spectrum
The big thing about the season is the festival. I'm excited because it's going to include many parts of the community, for example Donald Byrd's Spectrum Dance, and Oregon Ballet Theater.
ballet draw formal interested love might title type
Ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance. I love to draw and paint; I do ceramics and photography. I'm interested in a lot of creative stuff. Jeff Bridges
ballet ballets classical emphasize express extreme fables happiness high hold interpret princesses rarely skinny tricks vocabulary woman
Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.