John Milton Quotes

When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

'Swan Lake' can be a nightmare. To make a 'Swan Lake' that is worth it, every single movement and breath has to be perfect. When you have an idea of 'Swan Lake' that is as high as that, it's almost impossible.

George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even realize that they are by the same choreographer.

From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.

I grew up doing tap, jazz, and ballet, so I understand rhythm and movement and performing.

I wasn't a crazy kid. I never went out, never went to football games. I was a trained ballerina.

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

Bob's work gleaned from hoofing, from vaudeville, from ballet.

I spent my whole childhood in leotards, tutus, sports bras; I was showing my midriff from the age of three.

Ballet found me, I guess you could say. I was discovered by a teacher in middle school. I always danced my whole life. I never had any training, never was exposed to seeing dance, but I always had something inside of me. I would love to choreograph and dance around.

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

I had some ballet training but didn't like it. It was like a game to me.

I have such a respect and fascination for dance. I can be light as air or stay grounded. Dance is really another universe.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

The energy doesn't end at the hands. I want such intensity that it feels like light is streaming from every finger.

The first time I saw Mikhail Baryshnikov it was like he had an anti-gravity machine in his pants. He would jump and stay in the air for 10 minutes.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

I suppose I'm the only person who remembers one of the most exciting of his ballets-it's the fruit of an unlikely collaboration between Nijinsky on the one hand and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle on the other.

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.