“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.” MindHumansWellsKindArtCharacterHelpingBodyFormTermHuman BeingsActingGraceCommunicateYour BodyFormerDancerBalletConjunctions Author:Zoe Saldana
“Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.” BodyPastPurposeStepsClassFashionTrainingConsciousBoundsTraditionalBalletTiedExpertiseOld DaysAppreciativeRepetitiveElitistExecuting Author:Shirley MacLaine
“Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamour.” WorldBodyMaterialsSourceAuthorityRisingBalletGlamourCommonplaceDisdainMaterial World Book:Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
“Ballet is pure and demands that you serve something larger than yourself, whether it be beauty or art, or a combination of both. It requires discipline, taking care of yourself, taking care of your own body first. Then it allows you to give of that beauty, the beauty that you acquire by sculpting your own body all your life.” GivingFirstsArtBodyCareDisciplinePureDemandCombinationAcquireBalletTake Care Of YourselfSculpting Author:Peter Martins
“Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking.” WayTryingTwoBodyBeautifulMovingSeaWalkingRiversDirectFishesBoatLakesFishingBalletEfficientFly Fishing Author:Howell Raines
“Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.” InspirationalArtSoulBodyLanguageDancingDanceDancerBalletJust DanceBody LanguageBallet DancerBallroomChoreographersInspirational DanceDance ClassShort DanceBallroom DanceBallroom DancingBallet DanceEnviromentalDance LifeFlamencoBallet DancingMotivational DanceArt DanceDancers InspirationFunny DanceBallet ClassLanguage AcquisitionClassical DanceDance PerformanceLanguage And CommunicationLanguages CommunicationDance Is LifeInternational LanguagePointePointe DancersBeautiful DanceLanguage ArtsDance Teacher Author:Martha Graham