Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment.

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

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.

I didn’t just want to make an abstract ballet. I wanted to create an idea. I came up with the theme of a poet, an artist or a musician searching for inspiration from a muse,...

The ancients wrote down the first scripture of choreography by observing in the night sky movements of the dancing stars.

Respect your body. Eat well. Dance forever.

Give the mind rest, do not stress too much on thoughts, close your eyes and let your spirit dance.

I’ve never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

The ballet was a turning point for the company when it premiered in 1972 and I am happy to be able to celebrate this landmark work as we open in our new home.

Dance is the divine art that empowers a lady to express her most sacred emotions through the majesty of movements.

And the process is very physical, which is something I always wanted to do, since I came from a ballet background and I really like telling stories with my body. That was the challenge… ....

Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer...

[But there are others uneasy about the encroachment of bare skin.] I think as a rule in classical ballet there is not a great call for nudity, … Our aesthetic is one built around a...

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

She has the personality and physical makeup for Broadway. In ballet, there are standards that must be met if you want a career in it. You should be small boned and have a 180 degree...

In the ballet world, obviously, people are small-breasted. On Broadway, what happened should be an attribute.

World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.

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.