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
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.
thinking dancer childhood
I had a wonderful childhood, coming from Cincinnati, and I think that it was great going into the life that I was going to have, where you have to start young as a dancer.
ballet care too-much
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
mother high-heels play
I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels.
body situation amazing-things
The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.
dancer unemotional
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
dance mean important
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.
real world way
When you get on stage, you can be anything. You are removed from reality in a way, the real world.
dance serious normal
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
children hiking ballet
In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
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.
dancing desire
So dancing was not something I had a great desire to do.
people feelings theater
Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.