Top 30 Quotes & Sayings by Natalia Makarova
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian dancer Natalia Makarova.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
People tell me I'm dancing better than ever. I don't know what happened, but I have new enthusiasm and more endurance.
It's not possible to be perfect - you can always do something better. I'm never proud of what I've done. Sometimes, I'm not ashamed.
Even the ears must dance.
To look back all the time is boring. Excitement lies in tomorrow.
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
I recently learn a new word: insatiable. That's me.
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
Because my profession is the body, it is a relaxation for me to get out of physicality and concentrate on more mental things.
All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.
Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
I want to be free... free to develop my art.
I really feel sorry for new generation. It's hard to find backbone. I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.
It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
I don't keep my secrets or my knowledge to myself.
I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
I think often that God is guiding me.
All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Dance involves physicality, it involves spirituality and even brains.
Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily.
It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.
I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.
A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.
It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
What I am looking for is a masterpiece. I don't want to waste my time. I am tired of experiments.
The expression should come from within oneself, conveying the spiritual - something between earth and heaven. And if one runs, one should not seem to touch the ground.
Being spontaneous, it's what saved me.
I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.
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