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“A real ballerina must fill her space with her own personality.”

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Natalia Makarova, born on November 21, 1940, is an outstanding ballerina. Renowned for her exceptional dance skills and artistic expression, she rose to prominence with the Bolshoi Ballet in Moscow and gained international acclaim. more

“I had to learn that slower is faster. If you practice every day with patience and correctness, you will get there. It's like preparing for a jump. You can't rush. You must summon the appropriate energy with split-second timing and have an understanding of purpose to get up in the air. It requires training, confidence and mental effort. You can't have a vocabulary without the alphabet. Balanchine used to say, "Do you want to be a poet of gesture or do you want to be a physical entity?"”

Ifs Want Used Purpose Energy Understanding Effort Practice Air Poet Training Get Up Faster Appropriate Gestures Splits Timing Entity Preparing Vocabulary Correctness Alphabet Up In The Air

Author:Edward Villella

“I have a fabulous life. It is interesting and rigorous. I work hard. So leave me alone. Watch my dust. Shut up.”

Hard Interesting Watches Hard Work Dust Shut Up Fabulous Leaving Me Me Alone Leave Me Alone Fabulous Life

Author:Mark Morris

“I know that applause is food for the arts, but it ceases to be wholesome if administered indiscriminately; and the nutrition is so rich that, far from strengthening the constitution, it disturbs and enfeebles it. Stage beginners are similar to those children totally spoiled by the blind affection of their parents.”

Ifs Knows Children Art Parent Rich Stage Constitution Blind Affection Cease Nutrition Applause Spoiled Strengthening Beginners

Author:Jean-Georges Noverre

“Our pointe shoes are our instruments. If something's wrong with my feet, all my mind goes there. I usually have six pairs ready. Soft shoes for one act, stiffer shoes for another, stronger shoes for a variation with a lot of turns.”

Ifs Mind Turns Feet Ready Six Stronger Instruments Shoes Pairs Variation Pointe

Author:Nina Ananiashvili

“So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Trying Years Looks Kind Littles Important Ideas Real Problem Body Values Focus Havens Danger Huge Decided Appearance Realms Dancer Connecting Choreographers

Author:Alonzo King

“Every battle is going to surprise you. No plan ever survives contact with the enemy.”

Enemy Plans Battle Surprise Contact

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I'm a combination of the Terminator and Bambi.”

Combination

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.”

Running Beast Savages Running Wild

Author:Dennis Rodman

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