Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
you. . . are. . . a. . . frige. . . with. . . wings. . . we. . . are. . . freaking. . . ballet. . . dancers!
It is shameful that dancing should renounce the empire it might assert over the mind and only endeavor to please the sight.
The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.
I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like. . . ballet for me.
My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.
We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us.
I was completely broke, so I started saying yes to everything. I said yes to a woman who approached me about shooting the Dracula ballet, even though I felt like I was probably going to sabotage it.
Ballet is only good when it is great.
It takes a lot of money to be a part of the ballet world. Both the training and the supplies are expensive, the shoes, the leotards and the tights.
Why are we inspired by another person's courage? Maybe because it gives us the sweet and genuine surprise of discovering some trace, at least, of the same courage in ourselves.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations.
We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.
Well, I took ballet for many, many years, so my whole childhood really revolved around dance class. I grew up around dance; my mother was a dancer.
Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that.
Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company.