#ballet

Some Russian ballet master woman said there's no culture in America, but if you look you can find interesting stuff in this country, don't you think? ↗

— Robert Duvall

#ballet #country #culture #find #interesting

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bent #dance #had #i #knees

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity. ↗

— Julie Harris

#beautiful #comes #communicate #each #expressing

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment. ↗

— Neil Patrick Harris

#ballet dancer #dancer #got #i #moment

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned. ↗

— George Balanchine

#everyone #medicine #most #poisoned #states

I trained as a ballet dancer - well, I started when I was two and a half, and was serious about it from when I was eight until I was 18. ↗

— Jessica Brown Findlay

#ballet #ballet dancer #dancer #eight #half

I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#beautiful #classical #classical music #cry #go

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers. ↗

— Adam Garcia

#cousin #her #i #introduced #me

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#badly #ballet #i #really #study

. 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