Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
I have too much respect for ballet to dare practice it. I did ask ballerina Megan LeCrone to teach me jetés. She said that was impossible but did observe that I have great feet.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.
I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.
So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's very uncreative. They don't discover the kinds of things that add up to a remarkable performance.
Dancing cheek to cheek.
At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.
Yo, dumbass. What do you think she’d be doing with them? Giving them ballet lessons? (Darling) Tell me again why I can’t kill him? (Hauk) You’re afraid of handling explosives. (Nykyrian) One day I’m going to get over that and when I do…(Hauk) I’ll wisely stop annoying you. (Darling)
My career came together very quickly. I only trained for four years before I became a professional, so I didn't have a lot of time to sit back and be inspired before I took my first ballet class.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.
I do ballet and pointe work. I also do tap, commercial jazz and technical jazz, freestyle street dancing.
I have a lot of intention behind what I put out there. The reason all this stuff I do works together, the environmental and social, collaborating with ballet companies to score a show, the bike tour - all of that stuff comes together through community building with music.
Basketball is at its best when you have athletes in space making plays. It's the same for soccer, you have great athletes in space making plays and that's when the game becomes beautiful. You have spacing and skill and coaching. It's all synergetic. You don't have to be a basketball fan to appreciate that. You can be a person who appreciates movement. It's almost like a ballet at that point.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. . . we can't dance synonyms.
I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.