Quotes on Pointe

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.

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

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

At the time I started in ballet they were dancing 'The Spirit of Champagne' on pointe, in Paris. I thought, 'I don't want to dance the spirit of champagne, I want to drink it!

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

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.