Dance is music made visible
If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable … - George Balanchine
If you don't feel challenged, it's because you're not doing enough. Ballet should never feel comfortable. Comfortable is lazy! If you're comfortable …
- George Balanchine
Dance is music made visible - George Balanchine
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better. - George Balanchine
In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance. - George Balanchine
I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers. - George Balanchine
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
Music must be seen, and dance must be heard - George Balanchine
Music must be seen, and dance must be heard
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. - George Balanchine
The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is. - George Balanchine
What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.
I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time. - George Balanchine
I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.
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