The waltz is a dance of quite too loose a character, and unmarried ladies should refrain from it… very young …
Samuel Goldwyn: What kind of dancing does Martha Graham do?
Associate: Modern dancing.
Goldwyn: I don’t want her then; modern dancing is …
In my time at English National Ballet, all my main ballerinas have been mothers or have become mothers while they …
Miss Fracci as the Sylphide who prettily lures a young Scotsman to leave his fiancée and fly with her to …
In no other art can one find a comparable gap between what the world thinks of a star and what …
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 …
We cannot, should not, dance everything. Ballet must remain closely linked to dance itself: ballet cannot be the illustration of …
I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to dance better than myself.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I had to find a music that thinks like a body, not a mind. You allow it to breathe; it’s …
In a society that worships love, freedom and beauty, dance is sacred. It is a prayer for the future, a …
Today I see young dancers who think they are doing well because they have a million followers. But the followers …
Leaving the ground always feels amazing to me. In some roles I am like a sprinter, a muscle machine. In …
There’s a proverb, ‘if you talk to a man about himself, he will listen for hours’, and I think that’s …
Aren’t all ballets sexy? I think they should be. I can think of nothing more kinky than a prince chasing …