255 Quotes About Ballet

Sempre, cazzo, sempre un passo indietro. Sempre un minuto in ritardo. Sempre un sogno avanti. Non voglio che sia così anche con Abbi. Sono determinato a non restare dietro di lei, ma nemmeno davanti. La conosco solo da tre settimane e ho ancora fresca nella memoria la prima volta che l’ho vista. Voglio starle accanto, passo dopo passo.All’unisono con lei. A lezione. Sul palcoscenico. Per strada. Nei passi di danza e nei passi di tutti i giorni.

I knew that I just didn't have it in me to give up, even if I sometimes felt like a fool for continuing to believe.

Did any of you ever see Doctor Tetrazzini perform? I say perform advisedly because his operations were performances. He would start by throwing a scalpel across the room into the patient and then make his entrance as a ballet dancer. His speed was incredible: "I don't give them time to die", he would say. Tumors put him in a frenzy of rage. "Fucking undisciplined cells!" he would snarl, advancing on the tumor like a knife-fighter.

NO greater love has a husband for his wife than to watch a 2hr documentary on an elite ballet competition.

Afterwards Isabelle often wondered if the moments themselves were greater or the memory of them. At least the memory did not pass, while the moments passed all too fast. Life whizzed by; she no longer had time to recollect it. Her notebooks to this day retain the story of her desperate attempt to hold together her self, her mind, her reason, her order, her morals.

By disparaging ballet he succeeded very well in convincing the boys that ballet was not for Americans, that it was European in origin and in continuing character.

Stabbings, shooting, rapes, homicides -- the denizens of places like the Elk brought those crimes along with them the way ordinary travelers carried luggage.

I think it's Harris Ferris who made the difference. His vision is that what makes a successful ballet company is the cohesion of music and dance.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.