Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Peter Martins

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Danish choreographer Peter Martins.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Peter Martins

Peter Martins is a Danish ballet dancer and choreographer. Martins was a principal dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet and with the New York City Ballet, where he joined George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Taras as balletmaster in 1981. He retired from dancing in 1983, having achieved the rank of danseur noble, becoming Co-Ballet Master-In-Chief with Robbins. From 1990 until January 2018, he was solely responsible for artistic leadership of City Ballet.

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up — © Peter Martins
...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up
Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.
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