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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

Dancers are instruments, like ...

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

What are you waiting for? What...

What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Storyless is not abstract. Two...

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

Music must be seen, and dance ...

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

George Balanchine 45 quotes

The woman's function is to fas...

The woman's function is to fascinate men.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

I can always invent movement, ...

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

I have no literary approach - ...

I have no literary approach - except to literature.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Your eyes is camera and your b...

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

I cannot move, I cannot even w...

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

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

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

The pointes for girls, I alway...

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

We must first realize that dan...

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

Most ballet teachers in the Un...

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

One is born to be a great danc...

One is born to be a great dancer.

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

I am a cloud - in trousers....

I am a cloud - in trousers.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Dance is music made visible...

Dance is music made visible

George Balanchine 45 quotes

The mirror is not you. The mir...

The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

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