Ballet Performance Quotes

I've always been in love with Melbourne. When I was 12, I was taken into the city by my grandmother to go to the ballet for the first time.

I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

Training for the ballet, Potter?" yelled Malfoy.

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast - it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

'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.

When you're really serious about ballet, it's a job - even if you're 15 years old. You're doing it six to eight hours a day.

I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

One of the most beautiful sights in dance is American Ballet Theatre in full flight.

I think that the ideal physique and look of a ballerina is always changing with different eras. And it's continuing to change.

I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.

I don't really dance for pleasure much." "Uh--so you, uh, usually dance professionally, or what?" Seb asked. "Yeah," said Nick. "The ballet is my passion.

The first time I took a plane to dance in front of an audience outside France was when I was in the Paris Opera Ballet School, and we flew to Japan.

Ballet is the fairies' baseball.

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've always wanted to be a professional dancer, I'd always wanted to be a ballerina. I trained for 13 years but it never came to be.

The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.

If you looked at my feet, you would know for sure that I used to do ballet. They're completely destroyed and ripped up.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

The Palais Garnier was part of my childhood, my pseudo-adolescence, my life.

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

I've relaxed my feelings about other companies performing my works. I have never in principle been against my ballets being danced by other companies. Rather, it is that we lack the time, space and money to insure that they are done well. To me, the only sin is mediocrity.