1241 quotes by dancers for you to enjoy

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

Great Me Together Experience Opportunity Mediums About Great Opportunity Come Most Always Ballet Artistic Different Interested Create Many Cohesive

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

Balance Dance Strike Able Abstract Between Narrative Just Literal

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

Love Architecture Ring City Seeing Above New How Ballet York Move Just New York New York City New York City Ballet Bodies Fourth

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

Space Three First Dancers Kicked Out Kind Studio Studios Around Years Sneaking Get Getting Expensive Depressing Them Whole

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

Music Dance Mirror Feeling Own Dancer Dancers Ourselves Response My Own Never Feel Check Look Always How Making Am Juxtaposition Much Really Body Choreograph Innate

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

I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to. Justin Peck

Behavior Dance Relate Everyone Always Linking Interested Mundane

I grew up going on vacations with my family to New York every summer, and it's something that I always looked forward to. They'd take me to theater and shows and interesting restaurants, so I was genuinely really excited to move there. Justin Peck

Family Me Every Summer Restaurants Something Take Excited New Looked Genuinely Always Up York Going Move New York Grew Theater Interesting Really Forward Shows Vacations

There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains. Justin Peck

Needs Age Women Encouragement Side More Support Brains Explore

I think ballet is pretty open about what music is used, actually. Justin Peck

Music Think Pretty About Open Ballet Used Actually

In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today. Karen Kain

What's a dancer's worst enemy? Sometimes it's age, but sometimes it's the dancer themselves. Karen Kain

Age Enemy Sometimes Dancer Worst Themselves

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it. Karen Kain

Nothing Council Had Praying Canada Even

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