I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers.
When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.
There was a period of time when I studied ballet a lot when I was growing up.
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
When I was filming in Budapest for ITV's 'Titanic,' I realised I'd never been to the ballet before so decided to see a production of 'Giselle.' I went on my own. As it was my first ballet, it was a very bizarre and interesting experience but very enjoyable.
I had never a thought of training to be a ballerina. I was a normal child. I never dreamed of the tutu.
In ballet class, I felt like Ralph Wiggum.
I rendezvous with the long wire and perform the 'torero walk', gliding my feet, holding the pole away from my body, head high.
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement.
While other girls swooned over The Beatles and the Rolling Stones, I worshipped Rudolf Nureyev and Isadora Duncan.
Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
Classical ballet will never die.
I danced six hours a day. My cross to bear is that my children have no interest in ballet. I think they could smell how much I wanted to put their hair in a bun.
My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.
Certainly, when you train as a classical dancer, you are very much influenced by 'Giselle.' You see it all the time; you start to learn the steps a little.
Ballet requires movements which are very unnatural. With every step, you do a circular movement of the hip. You turn out from the hip and make your knees point out to the side instead of forward.
I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
I took ballet when I was eight, like a lot of other people.
I was a ballerina for 10 years growing up, but I stopped.
You cannot dance an arabesque in 'Swan Lake' and 'Nutcracker' the same way.
I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.
I'm always ballet ready.
Ballet was just something that I always wanted to do.
