Pastoral Resources

I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes.

In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case.

Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.