Ballets Quotes

The best gift I was ever given was the arts. My mum gave me those on a silver platter. Growing up, her and my grandmother would take me to ballets, classical concerts, even smoky jazz clubs I wasn't supposed to be in! Jill Scott
Best Me Gift Jazz Gave Those Would Classical Silver Given Take Supposed Concerts Smoky Ballets Up Arts Clubs Grandmother Even Growing Growing Up Mum Platter Ever Her
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. Twyla Tharp
Time Difficult Imagination Components Had Because Ballets Tradition Romantic Modernism Century Many Difficult Time
I remember that my mother used to take me to see ballets, especially if there were black people in them. Ntozake Shange
Me People Remember Mother Black See Take Ballets Were Them Used
I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing. Iris Apfel
Dark Live Dark Ages Would Paris Ballets Were Loved Century Ages Actually Designing Early Chanel
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience. Robert Caro
Great You Experience Older Pretty Totally New Come Like Because Ballets Get Experiences Harder
Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do that.' Sylvie Guillem
Way More Could Said Ballets Lot Done Going Oh Refused
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. Robert Gottlieb
Good Least Ballets Ground Thin Guarantees
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets. Robert Gottlieb
Brilliant Nothing Except Comic Ballets Than Maybe Create Harder
'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does. Robert Gottlieb
Beauty Sleeping Too Everything Classical Wrong Most Vulnerable Greatest Does Ballets Go Often Challenging
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love. Robert Gottlieb
Love Art Long Dancers Run Bad Temporarily Only Long Run Audience Ballets Art Form Yes Form Lowering Useful Standards Fun Mediocre
'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is one of George Balanchine's greatest creations - and one of the greatest of all story ballets. Robert Gottlieb
Dream Greatest Ballets George Story Creations Night
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
The first year with ABT I learned 13 new roles. Most were lengthy ballets, more complicated than I was used to. I have suffered from tendinitis since I was 13, and it flared up again until the pain was paralyzing. There were times I prayed I'd be sick so I wouldn't have to go on. Gelsey Kirkland
Complicated First Year Pain Sick More Since New Most Until Learned Ballets Go Were Prayed Up Times Than Roles Again Lengthy Used Suffered
I keep starting supergroups, writing ballets and things like that. Rhiannon Giddens
Writing Like Ballets Keep Things Starting
I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing. Justin Peck
Enjoy Would Seeing Ballets Trying Create
It's amazing what a resource modern technology is now for making ballets, and I film my rehearsals almost every day. Justin Peck
Day Technology Every Day Amazing Every Resource Almost Almost Every Day Making Ballets Modern Modern Technology Rehearsals Film Now
I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they're ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another. Suzanne Farrell
Style Dramatic Extreme Characterization Like Particularly Another Ballets Go Which Chance
I was not influenced by concerts as a child, but I was very strongly influenced by the ballets I saw. Bebe Neuwirth
Saw Strongly Concerts Ballets Very Child Influenced
In the world of classical ballet there are only a handful of story ballets, so getting a new one is cause for excitement. Karen Kain
World Cause Classical Only Only A Handful Excitement New Ballet Ballets New One Handful Getting Story
When you dance, it takes a lot of stamina, but it never seemed like work 'cause I was doing something that I so loved doing. It was always a joy. And you know, to have beautiful ballets made specially for you is such an honor. I always said it was better than diamonds. Patricia McBride
Work Beautiful You Joy Better Cause Dance Honor Made Seemed Something Never Takes Like Know Said Always Ballets Doing Diamonds Lot Than Loved Stamina
Mr. Balanchine wanted me to be myself. He didn't want me to look like anyone else. I love teaching our company dancers the Balanchine ballets. I try to give them what was passed down to me and what I learned from him. They dance it so beautifully. It also keeps me close to Mr. Balanchine. He's with me every single day. Patricia McBride
Love Myself Day Me Try Dance Single Down Every Else Our Dancers Give He Like Look Also Him Beautifully Learned Single Day Passed Ballets Close Want Wanted Anyone Anyone Else Them Teaching Company Keeps Every Single Day
I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me. Patricia McBride
Hope Dreams Me Remember Thought Girl Symphony Wildest Wildest Dreams Had Beyond Ballerina Ballets End Scotch Junior Oh Want Little Worked Actually Here
I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience. Lucy Hawking
Family Own Stage Our My Own Had Audience Ballerina Ballets Child Front Wanted Room Used
Sometimes I feel as if sections of my ballets were done for me - that I didn't do them myself. Antony Tudor
Myself Me Sometimes Sections Feel Ballets Were Done Them
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