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.
My mother never learned English, but in Russia, the greatest thing was to give a child to the arts. And so they gave me to the ballet.
I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.
'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does.
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
I think it's really important to mix cardio with toning, so I love boxing and then add in Pilates or ballet to keep me long and lean and avoid bulking up.
You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
Each morning I do my ballet class for one hour; after that, it means one hour less to get ready.
My goal is to be the best TV presenter, the best entertainer, the best singer. I still want to be the best dancer. I want to be the best at everything I do.
The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.
I was always going to be a dancer - I drifted into acting.
I always want to have more dancers in my company.
And then I wonder who looking at. All these people must have their dreams, too. And maybe that's why on the bus to New York City. Maybe they want to be dancers, or singers, or run big companies, or sell inventions. It's strange to try to think of eve...
Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it. Her notebooks to this d...
I am not the first straight dancer or the last.
