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Ballet will speak for itself....

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

It's like the time capsule wi...

It's like the time capsule with everything in it. Or like the seed that when you plant it, becomes the enormous tree with leaves and fruit. Everybody was in that little seed, and so everything can open. The tree of dance is like that. It just takes a long, long time to blossom.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

If you don't feel challenged,...

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 when you dance, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. 100 % is not enough. You have to give 200%. One tendu takes years of hard work and will never be perfect. Everything in ballet is a challenge.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

We must first realize that da...

We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

The choreographer and the dan...

The choreographer and the dancer must remember?that they reach the audience through the eye.?It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,?much as it is with the work of a magician.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Ballet dancing is arduous, st...

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Storyless is not abstract. Tw...

Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves

George Balanchine 45 quotes

The pointes for girls, I alwa...

The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

I cannot move, I cannot even ...

I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Music must be seen, and dance...

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

George Balanchine 45 quotes

I don't have a past. I have a...

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 45 quotes

See the music, hear the dance...

See the music, hear the dance.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Someone once said that dancer...

Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But I don't agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Dancers are instruments, like...

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

One is born to be a dancer. N...

One is born to be a dancer. No teacher can work miracles, nor will years of training make a good dancer of an untalented pupil. One may be able to acquire a certain technical facility, but no one can ever 'acquire an exceptional talent.' I have never prided myself on having an unusually gifted pupil. A Pavlova is no one's pupil but God's.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

I've got more energy now than...

I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

One is born to be a great dan...

One is born to be a great dancer.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

In ballet a complicated story...

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

In my ballets, woman is first...

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 45 quotes

The ballet is a purely female...

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

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