Badminton is like ballet dancing. It requires a lot of control, strength, mind play and measured movement
I am a cloud - in trousers.
Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body. All these defects, mortifying for those who have contracted them, cannot be remedied except in their early stages. A habit born in childhood is strengthened in youth, becomes deeply rooted in adulthood and is incurable in old age.
So. . . I'm larking through the Baby Gap, looking at tiny capri pants and sweaters that cost more than. . . I don't know,more than they should. And I get totally sucked in by this ridiculous, tiny fur coat. The kind of coat a baby might need to go to the ballet. In Moscow. In 1918. To match her tiny pearls.
No matter the style, the farther one goes the more obstacles increase, and the more distant appears the object it is desired to attain. Again, the most strenuous labor affords the greatest artists but a disquieting gleam which only reveals their inadequacy, while the self-satisfied ignoramus surrounded by the deepest gloom flatters himself that he has nothing more to learn.
In France, ballet is on TV. . . It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.
You're never more of an individual than when you're a happy team player.
We must never forget that the dance is the cradle of Negro music.
The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.
I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.
Muse of the many twinkling feet, whose charms are now extending up from legs to arms.
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.
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.
Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.
You never advance without losing something en passant. . . you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing.