What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
Repetitiveness and discipline are the secrets of cake decorating. The art comes from the meticulous technique, the way it does for a dancer.
It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer
I haven't had a family, but I don't think of that as a sacrifice: my dancers are my family.
It's great that ballroom dancing is being recognised. For many years ballroom dancers were misunderstood and other dance forms didn't want anything to do with us.
Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.
I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.
No one can hand you anything as a dancer. You have to earn it.
The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers.
I liked to read but, being a dancer, I didn't have a lot of time to read.
I started out as a dancer, but gradually became more interested in music.
Dancer: They hit Buddy! Come on, girls!
I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
So he was frustrated with her. Most people rolled their eyes when they got frustrated. Alaric made dolphins do ballet.
I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.
