Wendy Whelan Quotes

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

I very much like dance and dancers.

The first movement ballerina should be a paradigm of strength and authority.

My mother danced; she loved the ballet.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

I'm a dancer, so I love to dance.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.