“I tell you, the arts - and especially ballet - the discipline is extraordinary. I was extremely impressed.” ArtDisciplineExtraordinaryBalletImpressed Author:Dwayne Johnson
“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
“Realization that i couldn't be a ballet dancer was a blessing in disguise because that was the first time I felt like I stepped into adulthood. I realized, Okay, this is not going to work out. It was frustrating for about a year because I didn't know what to do with the creativity and the discipline that dancing had instilled in me from a very young age. But then I moved to Paris to model, and that was my cultural awakening. Now, I think dancing has been the biggest thing in my life, much more so than modeling, and it still helps me enormously in my work.” ThinkingHelpingAgeCreativityDisciplineBlessingFirst TimeOkayMovedDancingWork OutAwakeningI RealizedRealizationDancerHelp MeBalletAdulthoodDisguiseGoing To WorkFrustratingModelingBallet Dancer Author:Diane Kruger
“When you train as a dancer, you understand you have to work exceptionally hard. I think dancers are the hardest - working people in show business. You have to push your body beyond where you thought it could go. It's athleticism. Perfection doesn't exist, but with classical ballet, there is an ideal, and I got obsessed with that ideal. In some ways, it was problematic because I don't have an ideal ballet body, but the discipline is what I carry with me to this day. That's my park, the discipline of dancing.” PeopleThinkingDisciplinePerfectionDancingTrainObsessedDancerThis DayBalletShow Business Author:Laverne Cox
“I took ballet for two years in high school and then in college on and off, and I went back into class. I'm nowhere near good enough to be a professional, but it's great to be in that environment. The discipline is so impressive.” EnoughSchoolEnvironmentCollegeDisciplineHigh SchoolGood EnoughBalletImpressive Author:Peter Vack
“The most essential thing in dance discipline is devotion, the steadfast and willing devotion to the labor that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom discipline to become moments of dancing too.” MomentsHoursLevelsHalfWillingDisciplineEssentialsLaborDancingDanceDevotionDancerBalletClassroomLowestSteadfastDrudgeryInspirational DanceShort DanceBallet Class Author:Merce Cunningham