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Justin Peck

American Dancer

Born: Sep 8, 1987

Always Ballet Dance Me Think Work

Related authors: Alvin Ailey JoJo Siwa Katherine Dunham Martha Graham Merce Cunningham Mikhail Baryshnikov Misty Copeland Twyla Tharp

If I get a commission, it's like a flood of creative thought and energy. Justin Peck

Creative Thought Energy Like Get Commission Flood

When I'm in sneakers, it changes my body carriage. I feel more in my own skin. Justin Peck

Own Skin Changes Carriage My Own More Feel Sneakers Body

My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist. Justin Peck

Rights Civil Civil Rights James Grandfather Activist

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing. Justin Peck

Enjoy Would Seeing Ballets Trying Create

To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible. Justin Peck

Me Dance Accessible Ballet

It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space. Justin Peck

Space Structure Develop Most Piece Alter How Shift Interested Choreographer

It's time for there to be roles in the ballet where two men can fall in love, and a woman can lead a company of 20 dancers that include both men and women. Justin Peck

Love Time Woman Women Men Men And Women Fall Dancers Both Both Men And Women Lead Ballet Roles Where Company Include Two

There is a clearing for new creative thought in choreography. I don't feel intimidated; there is a lot I can do that is new or innovative or different. Justin Peck

Creative Thought Innovative Intimidated Feel Clearing New Lot Different Choreography

Ballet dancers are among the greatest living athletes. Justin Peck

Living Dancers Athletes Greatest Ballet Among

It's nice to have the support and infrastructure to do what I want creatively. That's kind of a rare thing to find. Justin Peck

Rare Nice Kind Find Rare Thing Support Want Infrastructure Creatively Thing

Pressure feels sort of normal to me. Justin Peck

Me Pressure Feels Sort Normal

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a cohesive experience. Justin Peck

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Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance. Justin Peck

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I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. Justin Peck

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The ballet world, it's a crazy world. Justin Peck

Crazy World Crazy World Ballet

It's expensive to get studio space and dancers. My whole first three years, I was sneaking around in the studios and getting kicked out of them. It was kind of depressing. Justin Peck

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There's something refreshing about going to work with a different group of dancers. There are different ways of moving, different ways in which the institution functions. There's a contrast from place to place, so the variety and the experience of working in a different place feeds me. Justin Peck

Work Me Experience Group Dancers Ways About Something Variety Feeds Institution Contrast Refreshing Going Different Place Which Moving Working Different Place Functions Different Ways

There's an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into the mirror. But as dancers, we always check ourselves in the mirror. I do feel that when I choreograph, I am making a dance on my own body. Much of it is my own response to the music. Justin Peck

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There is something very cyclical about the way fashion designers work. They work and work and work, the collection is finally shown, and after those 15 minutes, they must start over from the beginning. This is not unlike the way I work creating new dances. Justin Peck

My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant. Justin Peck

Work World Relevant New Make Sure Ballet Intention Being Created

I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted. Justin Peck

Reputation Think Bad Ballet Being Depleted

It's very difficult to switch back and forth between running rehearsals and then stepping in to dance in rehearsals as a dancer. Just to switch hats in an instant can be a little bit jarring, mostly physically, on the body. Justin Peck

When I'm making a new ballet, I usually read through the score a little bit, and then I have to go back and translate or transcribe all the counts for dancers because the way that you hear it is completely different from the way the musicians read and play it. Justin Peck

I'm really interested in working with groups. It's a very simple thing for me, and if I'm given the option to work with two people or 10 or 20 people, I'm going to take 10 or 20. I just think there's so much more I can do with that. Justin Peck

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