Thursday, 4 May 2017

Ballet Sayings and Quotes

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Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

Anna Paskevska




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Ballet is created on beautiful lines and shapes. If what you hear and what you see mesh, there's a very thrilling experience.    

Martin Fridmann



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I think most dancers would agree that the art of ballet chooses the dancer, not the other way around.

Kevin Mckenzie



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You go to the ballet and you see girls dancing on their tiptoes. Why don't they just get taller girls?

Greg Ray



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Ballet is not technique but a way of expression that comes more closely to the inner language of man than any other.

George Borodin




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Ballet technique is arbitrary and very difficult. It never becomes easy; it becomes possible.

Agnes De Mille



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Ballet is a dance executed by the human soul.

Alexander Pushkin



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You don't have to know about ballet to enjoy it, all you have to do is look at it.    

Edwin Denby



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Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all it is a pleasure.

George Balanchine



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Ballet is only good when it is great.    

Arlene Croce



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Ballet class is like Life Lessons 101. You learn some of life's most important lessons here that you will carry with you forever.

Joanne H. Morscher



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Ballet is the one form of theater where nobody speaks a foolish word all evening, nobody on the stage at least.

Edwin Denby




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Most people think of ballet as children in little tutus. They don't know it is sweat, blood and tears as well!

Nan Keating



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Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.    

Sutton Foster



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Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

Carine Roitfeld



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Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.    

Robert Gottlieb



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If ballet was easy, then everyone would be doing it.    

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The domain of the ballet dancer is not earth but air.

Lincoln Kirstein



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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine



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Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

Oscar Levant



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Ballet is purifying, every movement physically honed and essential, with no superfluity or excess.

Jennifer Homans



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Ballet is a universe of the imagination, a place of magic and enchantment, beauty and romance. Its many worlds vibrate with graceful dancers, glorious music, and sumptuous costumes.

Trudy Garfunkel



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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine



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The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Robert Caro




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The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.

Twyla Tharp



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At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Robert Caro



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Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.    

Neve Campbell



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Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.    

Jennifer Ellison



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A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

Jean-Georges Noverre



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Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.    

George Balanchine

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