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When I was about five, I started dancing - like, tap and ballet - in one little class.
Sarah Charles Lewis
Class
Dancing
About
Like
Ballet
Tap
Five
Little
Started
I was kind of a loser at ballet school. It's all rich kids, and I was not a wealthy kid. I didn't have the Chanel butterfly clip everyone else did.
Sarah Hay
School
Rich
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Kid
Kids
Kind
Wealthy
Ballet
Loser
Clip
Did
Butterfly
Chanel
There's only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You're basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.
Sarah Hay
You
Space
Group
Every
Only
Ballet
Roles
Same
Want
Succeed
Certain
Team
Company
Amount
Basically
I'd love to look like my mum when I am her age. She taught ballet for years, and my attitude to exercise and fitness has definitely been influenced by her. She's 84 now, and I've watched how well she has aged, and a lot of that is to do with her fantastic posture.
Sarah Parish
Fitness
Love
Attitude
Age
Definitely
Posture
Like
Look
She
Well
Exercise
How
Am
Ballet
Been
Years
Lot
Taught
Influenced
Aged
Fantastic
Now
Mum
Her
Watched
My earliest memory is of sitting at Mum's dance school, watching her teach a ballet class.
Sarah Parish
Class
Memory
School
Dance
Ballet
Sitting
Teach
Mum
Her
Earliest
Watching
My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any kind of isolated moves, like ballet moves. Anything that works the glutes and legs - sign me up! And I like to blast the music. I have to get lost in the music. That helps.
Sarah Shahi
Music
Me
Dance
Big
Lost
Sign
Favorite
Out
Kind
Blast
Feel
Like
Another
Isolated
Ballet
Up
Big One
Get
Any
Moves
Legs
Anything
Working
Workouts
Works
Helps
I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
Sarah Sutton
School
Nine
Visiting
Performance
She
Audition
Ballet
Years
Happened
Agent
Who
Whole
Suggested
American Ballet Theatre's rehearsal studios are at 890 Broadway, an old building where exposed pipes clank and hiss in uneven accompaniment to piano music. The high ceilings wear a toupee of dust. The wall paint peels like a newbie ballerina's toes.
Sascha Radetsky
Music
Theatre
Old
Building
Dust
Broadway
High
Wear
Piano
Studios
Like
Ballerina
Ballet
Wall
Pipes
American
Uneven
Where
Toes
Paint
Rehearsal
Exposed
Sir Kenneth MacMillan's version of 'Romeo and Juliet' is my favorite full-length ballet, Sergei Prokofiev's breathtaking score a favorite composition of music. As a student of martial arts, I loved drawing my sword in defense of my Capulet kin.
Sascha Radetsky
Music
Defense
Drawing
Favorite
Kin
Composition
Martial
Martial Arts
Student
Ballet
Score
Juliet
Version
Sir
Arts
Loved
Romeo
Romeo And Juliet
Breathtaking
Sword
Kenneth
Twyla's works are complex, and they really push you as an athlete and push you spiritually as well. Before doing a Twyla ballet, you have to get everything in order: You have to get a good night's sleep, you have to eat well, you have to be in great shape, and then you just go and leave it all out there.
Sascha Radetsky
Good
Great
You
Before
Everything
Complex
Out
Athlete
Eat
All-Out
Spiritually
Shape
Push
Well
Leave
Ballet
Doing
Go
Get
Just
Order
Then
Really
Works
Night
Sleep
At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks.
Sascha Radetsky
Teacher
Class
Man
Old
Brilliant
Hair
White
Rage
Athletic
Could
Students
Studied
He
Failed
Moscow
Reach
Academy
Stuttering
Ballet
His
Nor
Short
Tiny
Order
Wore
Fiery
Old Man
Flew
Cooks
Tolerate
Brigade
Level
Socks
An ex-ABT ballerina, while staging a ballet for the company, once followed a dancer into the bathroom to deliver notes through the stall door. She was known to bark - literally, like a dog - during private rehearsals.
Sascha Radetsky
Dog
Dancer
Bathroom
Once
Followed
Through
Deliver
Like
She
Known
Ballerina
Ballet
Private
Door
Literally
Staging
While
Notes
Stall
Bark
Rehearsals
Company
If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.
Sierra McCormick
Love
Beautiful
Crazy
Dance
Party
Dancer
Some
Put
Like
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
However
Graceful
Moves
My family was artistic and encouraged me to express myself. I was a show-off, so they took me to ballet class.
Sofia Boutella
Myself
Family
Me
Class
Took
Ballet
Encouraged
Artistic
Express
How can you live the high life if you do not wear high heels? I don't understand why women wear these ballet pumps. They are only good if you walk like a ballet dancer, and only ballet dancers do that.
Sonia Rykiel
Life
Good
You
Women
Walk
Live
Dancer
Dancers
High
High Heels
Wear
Only
Like
Understand
How
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Heels
Why
Ballet is something for which you need so much control and composure. And there's an element to acting that is the complete opposite. You have to be able to completely let go and reveal everything about yourself. It's about being very vulnerable.
Sonoya Mizuno
You
Yourself
Control
Complete
Everything
Complete Opposite
Able
Composure
About
Something
Vulnerable
Reveal
Ballet
Go
Opposite
Very
Being
Which
Much
Acting
Element
Let Go
Need
Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.
Steve Martin
Music
You
World
Considered
Kind
Look
Opera
Around
Without
Ballet
Exist
Commercial
Any
Artistic
Anything
Anytime
I've trained in dance for most of my life, but ballet was the thing I left behind the earliest because they felt like I didn't have the right body for it, and I didn't like that and never felt like I could be a part of that dance structure.
Susan Kelechi Watson
Life
Dance
My Life
Structure
Could
Never
Part
Like
Most
Because
Felt
Ballet
Left
Trained
Behind
Body
Right
Thing
Earliest
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
Suzanne Farrell
You
Care
Too Much
Too
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Kind
More
Had
Feel
Like
Looked
Sort
Because
Disciplined
Ballet
Wanted
Conformity
Much
Certain
Required
On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.
Suzanne Farrell
Life
You
Age
Wonderful
Discipline
Control
Think
Other
Everyone
Classes
Some
Gives
Take
Ballet
Go
Hand
Any
Place
Your
I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique. It's perfect. It's beautiful. It's well done. But it lacks the theatrical tradition that is so important in England. At the Royal Ballet, absolutely everyone on stage seems to be caught up in the plot.
Sylvie Guillem
Beautiful
Great
Garden
Great Deal
Important
Stage
Side
Everyone
Plot
Seems
More
Paris
Perfect
Absolutely
Opera
Well
Concerned
Well Done
Learned
Deal
Caught
Ballet
Tradition
Up
Done
Lacks
Theatrical
England
Technique
Royal
At the Paris Opera Ballet, they were always making choices for me.
Sylvie Guillem
Me
Paris
Opera
Always
Making
Ballet
Were
Choices
I was afraid when I came to the Royal Ballet that it would be easy to have everyone walking all over me if I didn't stick up for myself.
Sylvie Guillem
Myself
Me
Everyone
Would
Would-Be
Easy
Over
Stick
Ballet
Came
Up
Walking
Afraid
Royal
When I was doing gymnastics, I was playing. It was fun. The ballet was not fun at all. Yes, I agree you must have discipline, but you don't need to be a witch. You can't teach a child like that. Three times a week, I went back to train as a gymnast. Then I was happy.
Sylvie Guillem
You
Happy
Discipline
Three
Back
Must
Gymnast
Gymnastics
Week
Like
Witch
Ballet
Doing
Yes
Train
Times
Child
Child-Like
Then
Teach
Fun
Agree
Playing
Need
As a professional ballet dancer, I have to accept that weekends are about work. The notion of a leisurely break with all the buzz and excitement of a Friday night simply doesn't exist for me.
Sylvie Guillem
Work
Me
Dancer
About
Weekends
Excitement
Simply
Accept
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Exist
Friday
Friday Night
Break
Leisurely
Notion
Professional
Night
Buzz
Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.
Sylvie Guillem
Treat
Dancers
Kids
Tend
Like
Ballet
Manipulate
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