Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.
My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.
Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.
I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.
I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.
I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.
Everything is not beautiful at the ballet. It's tough.
Don't hold on to the barre like, 'I might die.' It's just ballet.
The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
