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Gramilano dance quotes

Robert Helpmann

Aren’t all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing a swan around all night….

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Thomas Adès

I had to find a music that thinks like a body, not a mind. You allow it to breathe; it’s a very graceful thing to…

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Susan Sontag

In no other art can one find a comparable gap between what the world thinks of a star and what the star thinks about himself…

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Carla Fracci

Miss Fracci as the Sylphide who prettily lures a young Scotsman to leave his fiancée and fly with her to the woods, was like a…

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Tamara Rojo

In my time at English National Ballet, all my main ballerinas have been mothers or have become mothers while they were lead ballerinas. I have…

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Quotes on Dance

The waltz is a dance of quite too loose a character, and unmarried ladies should refrain from it… very young married ladies may be allowed…

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Crystal Pite

There’s a proverb, ‘if you talk to a man about himself, he will listen for hours’, and I think that’s key. If people feel represented…

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Mikhail Baryshnikov

I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself. Mikhail Baryshnikov  

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George Carlin

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music. George Carlin (1937-2008), American stand-up comedian, actor, social critic, and author.

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Natalia Osipova

Today I see young dancers who think they are doing well because they have a million followers. But the followers have seen snapshots, short videos….

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Natalia Osipova

Leaving the ground always feels amazing to me. In some roles I am like a sprinter, a muscle machine. In others – like Giselle –…

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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a remembrance of the past and…

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Samuel Goldwyn

Samuel Goldwyn: What kind of dancing does Martha Graham do? Associate: Modern dancing. Goldwyn: I don’t want her then; modern dancing is so old fashioned….

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Serge Lifar

We cannot, should not, dance everything. Ballet must remain closely linked to dance itself: ballet cannot be the illustration of any other art. Ballet should…

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Les Étoiles – the starry Rome gala at the end of January, now with two programmes

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Gregory Kunde as Otello, photo by Matthias Baus, Teatro alla Scala 2015

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English National Ballet in Derek Deane's Swan Lake, photo by ASH, Arnaud Stephenson, 2013

Derek Deane on 20 years of his Swan Lake ‘in the round’

Grand Pas Classique at English National Ballet, photo by Laurent Liotardo

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GRAHAM SPICER

Writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano’) about dance, opera, music and photography for people who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like. I was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy. My scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman’s Weekly to Gay Times. I write the ‘Danza in Italia’ column for Dancing Times magazine.

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