Ballet is not just my profession, it is my life. . . It is horrible for me to think that one day it will all finish.
Being alive is about playing to win. Being brain dead is when you play not to loose.
To dance is to give channel to the Creator.
Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.
Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved
It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.
To brisk notes in cadence beating, glance their many-twinkling feet.
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.
You realize you can get good at something, even though ballet almost felt like you could never be good enough. No matter how hard you worked, it was so hard to be a great dancer.
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
Applause lavished at a whim and without discernment, often proves the ruin of young people training for a stage career.
Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.
I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.
In dance the hand hath liberty to touch, the eye to gaze, the arm for to embrace.
Although we do come from a silent profession, it is important for us to verbalize what we want to say. (As I tell my students): you could love someone all your life, but if you never say it how are they going to know? There comes a point when you have to say what you mean, which makes you scream louder when you dance.
I want to share the ballet world with everyone.
When I was very young I wanted to be an opera singer, a ballet dancer. . . The people I loved were a little different.
One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
Ballet is more than a profession - it is a way of life.