60 Quotes by George Balanchine

  • Author 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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  • Author George Balanchine
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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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    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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  • Author George Balanchine
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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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