Abstinence is easier than temperance.
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.
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.
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.
The arts are the hospitals for our souls.
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.
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.
UNC symbolizes something special. When you get chills you know you belong here.
One visit with a child can supply us with enough creativity dust to last for a lifetime. . . Visit with children like you're the child you ought to be more often.
Do not fall into the trap of thinking that just because a kata begins to the left that the opponent is attacking from the left.
When you see period films, it tends to often be with older actors.