60 Quotes by George Balanchine
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God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do...
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Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" *
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Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.
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I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.
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What are you waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.
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Put a man and a girl on stage and there is already a story; a man and two girls, there's already a plot.
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Music must be seen, and dance must be heard
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I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance
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Storyless is not abstract. Two dancers on the stage are enough material for a story; for me, they are already a story in themselves
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