Top 1200 Ballet Dancing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on December 2, 2024.
Maybe I should have a scandal - then I can be on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
'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.
Ballet is certainly appreciated in New York, but it has been a part of the Russian culture, history and heritage for hundreds of years, so it's much more instilled in the Russian blood.
I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers.
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.
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
I always thought of running as just dancing forward.
The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes. Their feet are arched.
You can't get more glamorous than you are on 'Dancing with the Stars.'
Just start dancing and the band will find you.
Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.
As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.
My earliest memory of dancing is that I won a dance contest in Jamaica when I was 6.
I just love music - I was always singing and dancing.
It's one of the reasons I want to do 'Dancing with the Stars': it's a platform to educate.
I've been with Semperoper Ballet in Dresden, Germany, for five years - I wanted to escape the competitive dance world and go somewhere where I felt appreciated for my talents. Stateside, it was always kind of a struggle. And the competition? Not into it.
Pole dancing is way harder than it looks.
The thing about my dancing is, I actually think I'm magnificent.
I want to see myself dancing on the big screen.
I'm enamored with the art world. 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.
I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.
I don't play golf. I have more fun singing and dancing.
On set, the playground for the character, how much it takes varies. Is it like ballet, is it like jazz? The content always lends itself to the form, and it's really not mathematics.
I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.
In theatre or in ballet, the ballerina always passes on what they know. It's a hands-on craft. You can't really learn the soul and the pathos of it if you just see a video. It has to be taught by someone who is in the know.
Wrestling isn't like ballet; it's not about practicing a routine. You need to focus. You need to concentrate. You need to know your craft.
A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle.
I've won my last four matches by knockout. Out of 30 fights, I've won more than 20 by knockout. I think that a ballet dancer wouldn't win by knockout.
The ballet of the good city sidewalk never repeats itself from place to place, and in any one place is always replete with new improvisations.
In break-dancing, you create your own style.
If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.
A producer wouldn't think of making a film about ballet dancers without using real dancers, but they will cast actors who have never held a bat in baseball films.
We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless.
The Royal Ballet School looked after me very well, they were like my family, and the company gave me everything. But I was unhappy and I didn't know how to express it.
There is something about Dior that reminds me of New York City Ballet. They both have a classic, glamorous basis but are trying to evolve the arts in new and innovative ways.
Dancing is a very healthy thing to do for our body.
I would live at the beach if I could, and I love dancing.
I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.
Breathing is crucial in dancing and so it is an important part of my exercises.
I never really did any disco dancing.
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang.
I don't think it would be fair for Tessa to do 'Dancing With The Stars.'
My one hour of dancing everyday keeps me in shape.
I was in a ballet company, and I auditioned for Bob Alton, a top choreographer at MGM. He sent me to see Arthur Freed, who offered me a seven-year contract.
When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because there isn't a lot of rehearsal time, especially at the ballet, it's best if everything is written in the score.
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.
You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.
Dancing and acting satisfy me in different ways.
When I was a child, I did singing and dancing and drama and impressions.
I had 10 wonderful years in Spandau Ballet. It was an incredible way to grow up, to hang out with your best mates, discovering the world, discovering who you are.
When I was really sick, I loved watching 'Dancing With the Stars.'
When you are a kid, you find so much comfort in dancing. I was comforted.
God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.
Ballet, there's a right way to do things, and it's black and white, and it's all striving for perfection. Acting is not that way. It's very gray, and the messier you can be, the better. The mistakes that you make are the gold and the beautiful stuff.
My first love is acting, but dancing comes naturally to me.
Going on stage and doing ballet, for the first time, was even more verification of, "This is what I'm meant to do. This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to make it somehow."
For every dancer, no matter how amazing your career, there's more to life than ballet. Being adored by your audience, it's only part of the story.
Why should I be angry at someone when they are out dancing?
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.
I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.
