David Hallberg Quotes

At 7, I was at the barre and dancing at folk festivals. Then I was a student with the ballet school of the Metropolitan Opera.

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18.

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.

Classical ballet will never die.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

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

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.

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.

I took ballet when I was eight, like a lot of other people.

I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.

I am passionate about ballet.

By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

My grandma was a ballerina.

When I was younger, people would always say, 'Are you a ballet dancer?' I had that look - one of those skinny kids with my hair in a bun.

I danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could smell how much I wanted to put their hair in a bun.

Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.

The ballet world, it's a crazy world.

The first time the Kirov ballet was seen in America was on Sept. 11, 1961. The ballet was 'Swan Lake.' The ballerina was Inna Zubkovskaya. The place was the old Met, on what must have been one of the hottest nights of the year, and there was no air-conditioning.

My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.