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One is born to be a dancer. No...

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

God creates, I do not create. ...

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Choreography is simpler than y...

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

First comes the sweat. Then co...

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Ballet dancing is arduous, str...

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

Ballet is important and signif...

Ballet is important and significant - yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

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

Ballet will speak for itself. ...

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

They are poets of gesture....

They are poets of gesture.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

The choreographer and the danc...

The choreographer and the dancer must rememberЂЁthat they reach the audience through the eye.ЂЁIt's the illusion created which convinces the audience,ЂЁmuch as it is with the work of a magician

George Balanchine 45 quotes

I don't want people who want t...

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

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Why are you stingy with yourse...

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving forЂ'for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

See the music, hear the dance....

See the music, hear the dance.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Someone once said that dancers...

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

George Balanchine 45 quotes

Put a man and a girl on stage ...

Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.

George Balanchine 45 quotes

My muse must come to me on uni...

My muse must come to me on union time.

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It's like the time capsule wit...

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

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

I could never make a ballet by...

I could never make a ballet by wrinkling my brow and concentrating. If you set out deliberately to make a masterpiece, how will you ever get it finished?

George Balanchine 45 quotes

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