#ballet

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I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.


Mikhail Baryshnikov


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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.


Robert Caro


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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.


Robert Caro


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I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.


Robert Caro


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I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.


Robert Caro


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The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.


Robert Caro


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Wrestling is ballet with violence.


Jesse Ventura


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The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on.


Gelsey Kirkland


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A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.


Twyla Tharp


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. 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


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