In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York City Ballet. My life, to a great extent, had been spent at and with the New York City Ballet, and I decided to try it. It was very scary, writing abou...
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vi...
I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of...
I wanted to be a ballet teacher.
Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.
Football is the ballet of the masses.
'The Nutcracker' is the ballet that keeps on giving.
I liked the structure of ballet.
Classical ballet will never die.
The best physique I ever had was when I was ballet dancing.
My mother danced; she loved the ballet.
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
I am passionate about ballet.
The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.
I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
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.
