#ballet

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing. ↗

— Clive Barnes

#calls #curtain #dance #dancing #few

I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She was just interested in everything and she took me to opera and ballet, and then ballet got me hooked. ↗

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

#ballet #because #chaplin #everything #films

I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing. ↗

— Elizabeth Berkley

#after #ballet #beautiful #beautiful things #been

Classical ballet will never die. ↗

— Ninette de Valois

#classical #die #never #will

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#ballet dancer #clumsy #counts #dancer #falls

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#arts school #attitude #ballet #classical #enough

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#because #care #certain #conformity #disciplined

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#child #companies #did #exist #fact

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#any #ballet #classes #control #discipline

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#capable #dancing #fact #getting #healthy