Ninette de Valois Quotes

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

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

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

I think I'm the same dancer everywhere. But I've learned a lot with Bolshoi - the history of the theater, the technique of the theater, different nuances in my technique.

So I'm studying ballet every day and really training so people will see me as a ballet dancer, which no one's seen before.

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.

I've been dancing for 10 years.

At age 10, I was better at ballet than I think I will ever be at any physical activity for the rest of my life.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

As an adult, I took ballet classes three times a week, and I believed it gave me better posture, a stronger body, and made me more graceful.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

A good education is usually harmful to a dancer. A good calf is better than a good leg.

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 was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

I started dancing almost before I could walk.

I've always enjoyed dancing, and I train myself in it. I try to hone my skills whenever I get the chance.

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

People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.