Ballet is only good when it is great..

If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimens….

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you..

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music..

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way y….

It is not the man speaking through the woman, it is the woman speaking through the man..

Why are men impersonating women funny while women impersonating men are not? It is a matter of gravity. A heavy thing trying to become lighter is aut….

When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily liv….

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them..

Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you ….

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive..

Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind..