Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.
Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
Music is heard in the background. As the movemnt becomes sharper; the many dancers acting but as one. She is one with her secret. As the time draws near, the woman's body begins to push. With the rhythm of the music and the beat of the dancer's feet;...
My dance teacher said "you are not a real dancer until your toes bleed from pointing all day" so I did just that. At that time when I went back to her she said "bravo. You have learned to live with pain. You are a real dancer.
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
With classical ballet you are literally injuring yourself.
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
City Ballet remains a great company in perpetual artistic crisis.
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.
Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
I'm not a big dancer!
I was a street dancer.
I think that taking ballet is one of the best things a girl can do. Period.
I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.
I came to New York to study ballet and English.
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
