Ballet Quotes

“Ballet is the fairies' baseball.”

“Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.”

“On Les Syphides. Here is the true masterpiece of the romantic ballet.”

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“In the 20th century, ballet continued to develop and has had a strong influence on broader concert dance.”

“The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.”

“The ballet needs to tell its own story in such a way it can be received without having to be translated into language.”

“Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.”

“The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.”

“At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.”

“In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.”

“And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.”

“Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.”

“Giselle is considered one of the great Romantic ballets, Giselle was first performed in Paris in 1841.”

“Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.”

“Classical ballet is the most formal of the ballet styles; it adheres to traditional ballet technique.”

“I'm so fair that I didn't go in the sun as a child. When all my friends were on the beach, I was going to ballet. The teachers there didn't like you going in the sun, so I never did.”

“I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.”

“The Nutcracker is more than 100 years old and was first presented at the Mayinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia.”