If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

You’ll do better if you have passion for something in which you have aptitude. If Warren Buffett had gone into ballet, no one would have heard of him.

How beautiful is the experience of dance. It can melt the grief of a heart with its steps of solace.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

Radio City Music Hall was at the table. Alvin Ailey, Hubbard Street, the New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the San Francisco Ballet it was a real mix.

Spirit of a dancer ages like whiskey for it experiences in each dancing act lifetimes of freedom.

We act as a conduit for the observers’ unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river, a building even

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

Para bailar, hay que merecerlo. Bailar sobre un escenario y delante de público constituye la mayor de las felicidades. A decir verdad, incluso sin público, incluso sin escenario, bailar es el colmo de la embriaguez....

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.

If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer.

Sensuality came into existence the moment when the first beat of melody knocked on the door of the world of belly dance.

Praise to the creator who magnifies a drop of joy within a soul into an ocean of bliss every time footsteps begin to dance.

You consider me for a moment, perhaps balancing the weight of your fear against the loneliness you will later feel in your room if you do not speak now

Dance provides the spirit with energy to survive from its confinement in the mortal frame.

I actually quit ballet when I was 14,

The people who enjoy classical music, opera, even classical ballet, would come to classical theatre if it were well-acted and imaginatively presented.

Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.

He can hum the music in his old man’s quivering voice, but he prefers it in his head, where it lives on in violins and reedy winds. If he imagines it in rehearsal he can...

Almighty God created a dancer as a symbol of the reflection of artistry in motion.

Sword of Raks is a symbol of a dancer with creative empowerment

It’s probably one of the biggest cornerstones in the classical repertoire. It represents a standard of classical ballet that we still hold high.

God sent as a revelation the gift of dance so his creation may experience one of the divine pleasures of paradise.

Jeremy Irons of ballet.

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn’t mine.

Dancers are the flag bearers of the artistic renaissance.

Real men don’t lift weights, they lift women.

A major assumption that underlies this selection is that it is only within work that is progressive, experimental or avant-garde that staid, old-fashioned images and ideas about gender can be challenged and alternatives imagined. I...

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Dance is the guide of the spirit’s journey to the stairway of heaven.

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

Classical ballet will never die.

Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.

I think it’s Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.

If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.

Could she press it all the way through to the floor?” And, you know, I’m not sure about that myself. The sole of your boot might give me a bit of trouble, but nothing else...

That day and night, the bleeding and the screaming, had knocked something askew for Esme, like a picture swinging crooked on a wall. She loved the life she lived with her mother. It was beautiful....

Beginnings of youth to growth of adolescence till autumn of life; every step journeyed with blossomed smiles wearing my dancing shoes.

I thought ‘Out of Africa’ would be a beautiful ballet.

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.

Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.

Apparently, I have good feet for ballet.

If the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars.

You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed...

Dance is the ritual of immortality

I had been wanting to do a short ballet to Schumann’s work for so long and we were finally able to get a great pianist, everything seemed to fall into place.

I feel his arm Lightly Over me.He takes one of my outstretched hands.Draws it beneath my stomach.”One more time…”This is not sex,Not friendship. SomethingStrangeSpecialIn the stillness of his breath,The waterlike way he moves.He is making...

Every style of dance is a tribute to the elements of the spirit.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.