Quotes by Ballet If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know. Mark Morris modern ballet likes A dancer, more than any other human being, dies two deaths: the first, the physical when the powerfully trained body will no longer respond as you would wish. After all, I choreographed for myself. I never choreographed what I could not do. I changed steps in Medea and other ballets to accommodate the change. But I knew. And it haunted me. I only wanted to dance. Martha Graham ballet dance two The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don't leap and jump anymore. I look at young dancers, and I am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age. Martha Graham dancer ballet art At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it! Martha Graham paris ballet dancing In ballet, I felt that no matter how good I was, if I didn't have the right body type or if I didn't fit a certain mold there was nothing I could do. Mary Elizabeth Winstead body-types mold ballet Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. Mark Twain ballet learning education Flawless . . . Tightly choreographed . . . Shipstead gains entry into exclusive worlds and trains her opera glasses on private social rituals, as well as behind-the-scenes hanky panky . . . Similar to classic ballet, the power of Astonish Me arises out of the pairing of a melodramatic storyline with scrupulously executed range of movement . . . Shipstead sweeps you into this insider world of sweat, narcissism, and short-lived magic . . . Transcendent. Maureen Corrigan sweat ballet glasses The Dance: A minimum of explanation, a minimum of anecdotes - and a maximum of sensations. Maurice Bejart ballet dancing dance I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously. Maureen O'Hara grew ballet grew-up Ballet has really helped me in every acting role. You have to be very disciplined, you have to be able to control your nerves and perform under pressure, and all those things you have to use in acting when you're on film or going for an audition. Mia Wasikowska ballet roles acting I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal. Mia Wasikowska ballet achieve perfection I love going to see the theatre whether it's a Broadway play or a Russian ballet company. Michael Ealy ballet theatre play I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. Michael Gambon ballet flower beautiful 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. Michelle Dockery ballet children school Be. Good. To yourself, to other people, to everything you do. It's a norm of life by which people should try to live. Don't waste time. Be interesting and interested. Mikhail Baryshnikov ballet people interesting The problem is not making up the steps but deciding which ones to keep. Mikhail Baryshnikov ballet dance steps I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. Mikhail Baryshnikov opera ballet mother Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important. Mikhail Baryshnikov ballet dance successful 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. Miles Teller ballet dancing college You can do anything you want, even if you are being told negative things.stay strong and find motivation. Misty Copeland stay-strong ballet motivation «678910111213141516»