#ballet

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Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror.


James Wolcott


#black #different #different kind #fans #finish

. Classic Ballet, Keep away, keep building your creaky fairy castles, keep cloning clones and meaningless manners, hang on to your beanstalk ballerinas and their midget male shadows, run yourself out of business with your tons of froufrou and costly clattery toe shoes that ruin all chances for illusions of lightness, keep on crowding the minds of blind balletomanes who prefer dainty poses to the eloquent strength of momentum, who have forgotten or never known the manings of gesture, who would nod their noses to barefoot embargos ("so grab me" spelt backwards). Continue to repolish your stiff technique and to ignore a public that hungers for something other than a bag of tricks and the empty-headedness of surface patterns. Just keep it up, keep imitating yourself, and, , go grow your own dance makers. Come on, don't keep trying to filter modern ones through your so-safe extablishment. We're to be seen undiluted, undistorted, not absorbed by your hollow world like blood into a sponge. Yours truly, A Different Leaf on Our Family Tree .


Paul Taylor


#classic-ballet #letter #business

Since I was a child I've loved going to the opera, theatre and ballet.


Christian Lacroix


#child #going #i #loved #opera

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.


Steve Martin


#anything #anytime #around #art #art world

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.


Maureen O'Hara


#danced #grew #i #theater #up

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.


Robert Smith


#drink #eight #flight #go #hour

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.


John Guare


#bodies #come #controlled #emotional #extraordinary

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 and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.


Merce Cunningham


#dance #inspirational #merce-cunningham #inspirational

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.


Deborah Bull


#career #dancing #glad #i #royal

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.


Deborah Bull


#ballet #bulk #case #example #for example