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
american-dancer aware life react wonderful
The wonderful thing about life it that there will always be variables. You have to see them and be aware of them to know how to react to them.
american-dancer brought loved potential whom
It brought out in me the person whom I had the potential to become. I think that's why I loved it for its own sake, not to be a ballerina.
ballets counting difficult easy involved liked
I liked math. Counting was easy for me, which was good, because a lot of the ballets have involved difficult counts.
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humdrum stage curtains
I loved the stage not because it provided an escape from myself or my humdrum life but because when the curtain went up I could be whoever I wanted to be, and that was true freedom - to be myself.
dance vibrate
As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.
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.
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.
dancer unemotional
I'm thought of as a cool, unemotional dancer, but inside I'm not.
errors giving credit
You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time.