The greatest crimes are caused by surfeit, not by want.
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.
Ballet is only good when it is great.
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is automatically funnier than a light thing trying to become heavy.
If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon.
And my wrist froze STAGE FRIGHT
I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.