I made the sympathetic face, and the interested face, and even the impressed face. I did not say, ‘In the name of all that is holy, cease this incessant drivel, you pretentious ass.

If you opened the dictionary and searched for the meaning of a Goddess, you would find the reflection of a dancing lady.

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.