Quotes on Ballet Dancer

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.

Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.

Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet, that the two disciplines were totally separate, and if you did one, you couldn’t do the other. I’m beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.

Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart.

To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful. This is power, it is glory on earth and it is yours for the taking.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.

Do you know what I've learned? That although ecstasy is the ability to stand outside yourself, dance is a way of rising up into space, of discovering new dimensions while still remaining in touch with your body. When you dance, the spiritual world and the real world manage to coexist quite happily. I think classical ballet dancers dance on pointe because they're simultaneously touching the earth and reaching up to the skies.