Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
I took ballet dancing forever, and there was a natural transition into acting.
'Swan Lake' is the most difficult thing to portray for a female ballet dancer; it really requires such specific qualities of articulation, agility, strength, and the arm work is something that takes a lot of training.
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
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 have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
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.
All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.
Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.
I've been very physical my whole life. I've done a lot of ballet, fencing and karate, and everything.
