I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.
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The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.
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My background is somewhat unusual, as I trained to be a ballet dancer. I worked in the theatre for eight or nine years as a contemporary dancer. But as an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics.
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The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
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I went to ballet school for nine years, and there was an agent for the whole school who happened to be there visiting one of the performances. She suggested an audition.
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The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
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I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
quote by Neil Patrick Harris
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If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
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One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
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Tango
takes two to tango
takes one
to ballet
it may take three to boogie
five or four to do the twist
but let me tell you friend
i am classical and i like ballet most
specially the split.
poem by Ric S. Bastasa
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the ballet dancer
twirls and swirls
turns my world around
haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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tottering ballet dancer
the butterfly flutters
round a bloom
haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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white nights festival
the ballet dancer autographs
with her lipstick
haiku by John Tiong Chunghoo
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Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
quote by Wystan Hugh Auden
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I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
quote by Jennifer Garner
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
quote by Harold Nicholas
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Mum, who had been a dancer with a small ballet company before she got married, was full of encouragement. She didn't say, 'This is really good, you should do this', She just encouraged us to do whatever we liked.
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Tiny Dancer
tiny dancer, dance for me
take away every dream and memory
trick me into believing everything is fine
dance til this rain turns to sunshine
as i watch you in my hand
...heal with with your beautiful dance
tiny dancer take me away
show me the way with your ballet
dance until my heart stops bleeding
kiss these wounds so they'll stop leaking
......now shes in me, always with me, tiny dancer in my hand
she dances with her heart and soul just so i can stand
poem by Tanesha Davenport
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Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
quote by Zoe Saldana
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When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
quote by Angelina Jolie
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