Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrell
Suzanne Farrellis an eminent 20th-century ballerina and the founder of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDancer
Date of Birth16 August 1945
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful dance dancing
After I stopped dancing, I was unable to listen to beautiful music.
dance vibrate
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
goal discipline dancer
I set as my goal to be the best dancer I could be. Not the most famous, or the highest paid dancer, just the best I could be. Out of this discipline came great freedom and calm.
eye light ballet
When you are on stage you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across.
people ballet needs
When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.
somewhere-else ungrateful wish
It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else.
class ballet firsts
Treat each class as if it were your first.
ballet moments
Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.
dance serious normal
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
dance wall dancing
Dancers are a great breed of people. And they really want to dance so you don't have to beg them to work. However, dancers sometimes build walls around themselves because they are presenting themselves all the time: dancing is very much a confession.
dance being-yourself different
Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.
dance thinking important
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.
dancer
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
healthy competition tests
I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.