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Ballet Master Inspirational Quotes (292)

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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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We look at the dance to impart the sensation of living in an affirmation of life, to energize the spectator into keener awareness of the vigor, the mystery, the humor, the variety, and the wonder of life. This is the function of the American dance.
Martha Graham
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To understand what I am saying, you have to believe that dance is something other than technique. We forget where the movements come from. They are born from life. When you create a new work, the point of departure must be contemporary life -- not existing forms of dance.
Pina Bausch
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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell. We can't dance synonyms.
George Balanchine
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When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.
Agnes de Mille
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I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.
Natalia Makarova
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I get speeding ticket like everybody else. If the restaurant is full I'm waiting in line like everybody else.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
Agnes de Mille
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You invest into the future, and that's how young people become human in best sense of it - through the great experience of listening a Müller symphony or to see a great play by Tennessee Williams, experience something in a ballet, in a film.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
Ninette de Valois
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The secret to dancing is that it is about everything except dancing.
Martha Graham
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There is fatigue so great that the body cries, even in its sleep.
Martha Graham
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Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.
Peter Martins
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
Natalia Makarova
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I am teaching more. That is what I do best.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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We danced with one body, one soul... For me, Margot is my family. She is all I have, only her.
Rudolf Nureyev
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Movement never lies. It is a barometer telling the state of the soul's weather to all who can read it.
Martha Graham
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Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success.
Ninette de Valois
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It’s hard to find backbone.I never had crisis of identity. But I think many Americans have it.
Natalia Makarova
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I did not choose to be a dancer. I was chosen.
Martha Graham
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You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.
Paul Taylor
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I once went through the dustbin outside David Bowie's house.
Matthew Bourne
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Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.
Rudolf Nureyev
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