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Ballet Master Inspirational Quotes (292)

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Dance every performance as if it were your last.
Erik Bruhn
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Although I don't gamble in life - I've never played poker - I do gamble on stage. I gamble with myself: 'Can I do this?'
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I am more interested in what moves people, than how they move.
Pina Bausch
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In the second part of life you get rid of stuff you've accumulated.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham
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It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.
George Balanchine
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Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.
Martha Graham
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When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography.
Martha Graham
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I was never like, collect, collect, like people who go to auctions. I never spent a serious amount of time because I don't have any time!
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.
Jean-Georges Noverre
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The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head look at the way the hairline grows think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Graham
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The Russian people get so insanely close to each other as friends. Their lives are interrelated so much on an everyday basis.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.
George Balanchine
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I don't try to tell the dancers exactly what a dance means before they do it.
Martha Graham
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Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.
Martha Graham
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine
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Divinity of art, it's such a mystery. How to convince people that no matter how much money you can spend on education and art education especially, that it implants, it directs a young person for the rest of their lives, and always in the most humane and positive and dignified manner.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I have some Russian friends. But probably only 10 percent. I don't hang out usually in the big Russian communities in Brooklyn and New Jersey.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.
Agnes de Mille
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If I see a human body on the stage, I don't see it as an abstraction. I see it as a body.
Antony Tudor
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You don't pick dance. Dance picks you.
Martha Graham
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You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.
Ninette de Valois
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It is not so much upon the number of exercises, as the care with which they are done, that progreses and skill depend.
August Bournonville
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Dance is music made visible
George Balanchine
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