#ballet

Wrestling is ballet with violence. ↗

— Jesse Ventura

#ballet #violence #wrestling

In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. ↗

— Karen Kain

#ballets #cause #classical #excitement #getting

There's nothing like the force and challenge of a new ballet to galvanize everyone involved in bringing it to life. ↗

— Karen Kain

#bringing #challenge #everyone #force #involved

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#beginning #between #dance #i #insisted

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for "Six Feet Under", last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day. ↗

— Michelle Trachtenberg

#choreographed #class #dance #day #every

Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror. ↗

— James Wolcott

#black #different #different kind #fans #finish

He can hum the music in his old man's quivering voice, but he prefers it in his head, where it lives on in violins and reedy winds. If he imagines it in rehearsal he can remember every step of his three-minute solo as if he had danced it only yesterday, but he knows, too, that one time, onstage in Berlin, he had not danced it as he had learned it; this much he knows but cannot recreate, could no recreate it even a moment after he had finished dancing it. While dancing he had felt blind to the stage and audience, deaf to the music. He had let his body do what it needed to do, free to expand and contract in space, to soar and spin. So, accordingly, when he tries to remember the way he danced it on stage, he cannot hear the music or feel his feet or get a sense of the audience. He is embryonic, momentarily cut off from the world around him. The three most important minutes of his life, the ones that determined his fate and future, are the three to which he cannot gain access, ever. ↗

— Evan Fallenberg

#dance #dancing #forgetting #memories #memory

In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. ↗

— George Balanchine

#better #equal #first #god #made

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. ↗

— Steve Martin

#anything #anytime #around #art #art world

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

— Robert Caro

#ballet #dance #embodies #feel #like