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I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.
Rita Ora
Time
You
Amazing
Lose
Control
Feel
Over
Like
Because
Ballet
Amazing Thing
Bambi
Legs
Much
Body
Turns
Your
Used
Your Body
Workout
Jelly
Thing
I started taking ballet lessons when I was 4, and I was performing in ballet companies when I was 10, and I did summer stock in Miami Beach when I was 12, and finally I said, 'I gotta go to Broadway.'
Rita Rudner
Summer
Finally
Broadway
Beach
Taking
Performing
Said
Gotta
Ballet
Go
Miami
Stock
Did
Companies
Lessons
Started
If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore
Looking
Dancer
Out
Over
Counts
Knowing
How
Ballet
Ballet Dancer
Falls
Get
Clumsy
At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
Robert Caro
Life
You
Rest
Something
Higher
Outside
Feel
Like
Ballet
Than
Really
Your
Presence
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
Robert Caro
Me
Unravel
Mystery
Sort
Ballet
Want
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
Robert Caro
Old
Never
Know
Until
Ballet
Years
Why
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
Robert Caro
Beautiful
Sometimes
Stage
See
Faces
Concentrating
Look
Beautiful Thing
Around
Ballet
Up
Intent
Thing
Rows
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
Robert Caro
Music
You
Sometimes
Dance
Stage
Embodies
See
Almost
Feel
Like
Ballet
Up
Notes
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
Robert Caro
Life
Wonderful
My Life
First
Rose
See
Something
Scene
Had
Knew
New
Come
Still
Ballet
Curtain
Moment
The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.
Robert Gottlieb
Best
Great
Better
First
Sit
Distance
Scale
Small
Scenery
Features
Small Scale
Instance
Observe
House
Ballet
Domestic
Up
Close
Often
Depends
Which
Elaborate
Much
Act
Choreography
Seat
Second
For Russians, to whom Pushkin's poem 'Eugene Onegin' is sacred text, the ballet's story and personae are as familiar and filled with meaning as, for instance, 'Romeo' and 'Hamlet' are for us. Russians know whole stretches of it by heart, the way we know Shakespeare and Italians know Dante.
Robert Gottlieb
Heart
Way
Dante
Russians
Poem
Shakespeare
Sacred
Instance
Know
Ballet
Hamlet
Italians
Text
Familiar
Story
Romeo
Meaning
Us
Whole
Filled
Whom
Ballet in September used to be dead as a dodo. Now, with City Ballet's ingenious decision to give us four weeks of repertory in the early fall, having cut down on the relentlessly long spring season when dancers, critics and audiences droop on the vine, we wake up after the dog days of August with something to look at.
Robert Gottlieb
Dog
Wake Up
Decision
Long
Spring
Fall
September
Down
Dancers
Relentlessly
City
Critics
Give
Something
Having
Weeks
Days
Look
Dead
Audiences
Ballet
August
Wake
Repertory
Up
After
Ingenious
Cut
Us
Used
Now
Season
Vine
Four
Early
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?
Robert Gottlieb
Work
Good
People
Determination
Pure
Mysteries
Dancers
Find
Charm
Perform
Supposedly
Blind
Knowledgeable
How
Ballet
Irresistible
Just
Eternal
Plain
Then
Many
What really matters is that 'Black Swan' deploys and exaggerates all the cliches of earlier ballet movies, especially 'The Red Shoes,' another tale of a ballerina driven mad and suicidal.
Robert Gottlieb
Black
Matters
Shoes
Mad
Exaggerate
Driven
Red
Tale
Another
Cliches
Ballerina
Ballet
Swan
Movies
Really
Earlier
Suicidal
The Kirov is a great ballet company because it has so many terrific dancers, but it doesn't always know what to do with them.
Robert Gottlieb
Great
Dancers
Know
Terrific
Because
Always
Ballet
Them
Many
Company
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
Robert Gottlieb
You
Degree
Healthy
Stars
Dancers
Ranks
Tell
How
Ballet
Middle
Interest
Your
Company
The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes, he's particularly good at nurturing dancers and identifying their essential qualities.
Robert Gottlieb
Good
Competition
Nurturing
Christopher
Dancers
Indeed
Mystery
He
Talented
Most
Particularly
Identifying
Qualities
Ballet
Yes
Essential
Younger
A lot of people have a lot of faith in Karole Armitage. They see her as bold, inventive, indefatigable. 'America isn't working out? There's always Europe. Ballet? No? Go modern. Keep going! Show 'em!'
Robert Gottlieb
Faith
People
Out
See
Inventive
Always
Ballet
Go
Lot
America
Modern
Going
Working
Show
Europe
Bold
Keep
Keep Going
Her
Ballet companies have their ups and downs, just like the rest of us.
Robert Gottlieb
Ups And Downs
Rest
Like
Ballet
Just
Ups
Us
Companies
Downs
Ballet Hispanico is a mixture of ethnic, ballet, social, jazz - you name it, it's doing it. The company has been going strong for more than 20 years, and you can see why: It may not be refined, but it's full of beans.
Robert Gottlieb
You
Strong
Jazz
Has-Been
See
More
Beans
Name
Ballet
Doing
Been
Years
Mixture
Refined
Than
Going
May
Social
Ethnic
Full
Company
Why
Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.
Robert Gottlieb
Good
Respect
Happy
Unhappy
Other
Way
Alike
Bad
About
Bad Ones
Crucial
Empty
Least
Ballet
Ballets
Opposite
Families
May
Different
Works
Tolstoy
Each
Right
If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.
Rose McIver
You
Speak
Dangerous
Sometimes
Cute
Other
Other Kids
Kid
Kids
Small
Piano
Piano Lessons
Taking
Clearly
Ballet
Were
Child
Child Actor
Did
Craft
Really
Acting
Lessons
Whole
Actor
Thing
When I was filming in Budapest for ITV's 'Titanic,' I realised I'd never been to the ballet before so decided to see a production of 'Giselle.' I went on my own. As it was my first ballet, it was a very bizarre and interesting experience but very enjoyable.
Ruth Bradley
Experience
First
Before
Own
Bizarre
See
My Own
Never
Budapest
Ballet
Been
Very
Decided
Realised
Titanic
Interesting
Production
Enjoyable
Filming
What I find funny are peoples' blind spots. That's the funniest thing about anybody - when they just don't realize who they are. What's funny about seeing a hippo do ballet is it thinks it's a swan.
Sam Richardson
Funny
People
Funniest Thing
Find
Seeing
About
Blind
Spots
Ballet
Just
Anybody
Swan
Realize
Who
Thing
Thinks
Funniest
If you have to tell a story without speaking, it's sort of like - I come from a dance background, so it's like a ballet where you have to tell a story with just your body. I think that's really interesting to have to tell a story with just your face and your mannerisms, and I'd like to tap into that world.
Sami Gayle
You
World
Dance
Face
Think
Background
Tell
Come
Like
Sort
Without
Ballet
Tap
Just
Where
Story
Interesting
Mannerisms
Really
Body
Your
Your Body
Speaking
I try and avoid cardio because it makes me lose a lot of weight. Instead, I do resistance training, model fit workouts, and ballet.
Sara Sampaio
Me
Training
Try
Lose
Weight
Instead
Because
Makes
Ballet
Lot
Fit
Model
Avoid
Workouts
Cardio
Resistance
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