To handle paint the way Pollock did, you need the muscularity of a ballet dancer.
Cricket is first and foremost a dramatic spectacle. It belongs with theatre, ballet, opera and the dance.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
…* to learn that money makes life smooth in some ways, and to feel how tight and threadbare life is if you have too little. * to despise money, which is a farce, mere paper, and to hate what you have to do for it, and yet to long to have it in order to be free from slaving for it. * to yearn toward art, music, ballet and good books, and get them only in tantalizing snatches.
I take class. I'm always ballet ready. I'm ready to go - got my tights and my shoes.
Bel canto is to opera what pole-vaulting is to ballet.
I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.
In France, ballet is on TV. . . It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.
The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
When I was a child, I went to stage school three times a week in the evenings - singing, ballet, tap, modern and acting, and I loved it.
It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
Coco Chanel was always doing things with ballet, so it is a tradition clashing fashion and ballet.
Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
Ballet was exactly what I was searching for, but my environment definitely made me the dancer and the person that I am today. And the Hip-Hop culture was a big part of it.
Minor things can become moments of great revelation when encountered for the first time
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.