Young Dancers Quotes

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 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.

If you start dancing too young, it can be torture. The bone is too soft, and it is going everywhere.

It was extraordinary 'cause I was 17 years old when I first danced with Edward Villella. And we were both young. But I had seen him dance, and he was already a star. So he was just so gentle and wonderful and kind, and we had a great rapport together. He was one of the most exciting dancers of our day.

I feel like I represent every young dancer, and even non-dancer, who felt they were not accepted by the ballet world. I'd like to think that they can see themselves in me.

Younger kids should realize that if dancing is what you wanna do, it's not always gonna be the easiest thing; you're not always going to end up dancing for Justin Timberlake right out the gate.

Within the dancing world, where we come from, there's a lot of same-sex partners as in, young girls dancing because there's not always enough boys to dance.

I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.

Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives... So train the whole person, not just the dancer.