“To have a platform like So You Think You Can Dance, where you're reaching this audience that's been created over the 10 years that they've been on the air. People who didn't know anything about dance and aren't going to go to the theater are learning about it, even if it's ballroom and jazz, by just turning their television ono. They're building this audience that's advanced and educated enough to introduce them to ballet.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsEnoughAudienceAirTelevisionBuildingTheaterJazzEducatedReachingBalletIntroducingPlatformsBallroom Author:Misty Copeland
“I'm a classical ballet dancer, and at the end of the day I want to be with American Ballet Theater, performing classical ballets.” WantEndsTheaterPerformingDancerThe End Of The DayBalletBallet DancerAnd At The End Of The Day Author:Misty Copeland
“I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.” ProudDirectorsTheaterBoardsTexasBalletHonoredBoard Of Directors Author:Janine Turner
“I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.” KindOne ThingTheaterMusicalDancerBalletRehearsalBallet DancerMusical Theater Author:Jennifer Garner
“God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.” WayPlayBeautifulHumanityWonderfulPaintingTheaterCommunicateTheatreBalletOrchestraSymphonySymphony OrchestrasBeautiful Paintings Author:Julie Harris
“Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much artistry can still dazzle us in the manner of the circus or sports arena translated to a higher plane. Though the perfect blend of the two elements is the consummation devoutly to be wished, the real enemy of good ballet is not the slight preponderance of one or the other but the prevalence of pantomime--the turning of dance into second-rate theater.” StillsTwoRealStrongSportsPerfectEnemyHigherElementsTheaterRateTechniquePlanesBalletArenaCircusArtistryDazzleSecond RatePantomime Author:John Simon
“Anyone interested in design must be interested in other fields of expression - theater, ballet, photography, literature, music.” InspirationalArtLiteratureInterestDesignFieldsExpressionPhotographyTheaterDanceBallet Author:Lester Beall
“I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.” YearsCitiesFourNew YorkTrainingTheaterAcceptedNew York CityBalletFour Years Author:Misty Copeland
“My parents used to park us kids at the public library in downtown Honolulu every Saturday. They'd leave us there at 8 A.M. and pick us up at 4 P.M. - so between those hours, you'd better find something to do! I sat upstairs in the picture room and went through opera, ballet, and theater books. I loved the photographs of people wearing elaborate makeup and costumes - they really pulled at me inside. I was in that library every week for years, until I was about 13. I had a rich interior life, because I didn't have much of a social life.” PeopleYearsBookKidsUsedSocialParentHoursRoomsRichWeekPicksTheaterLibraryPhotographSatParksMakeupBalletOperaSaturdayInteriorsCostumesSocial LifeDowntownUpstairsPublic LibraryHonolulu Author:Bette Midler
“I thought I'm going to die. So why can't I do everything? And what is this idea that I worked all day yesterday, so I'm tired today? I've never believed that.I thought, "Just suppose I could choreograph a ballet." And I did it. Suppose I could teach dance at the theater in Cleveland. And I did it. Suppose I could sing for a living - that I could stop these two jobs as a waitress and a salesperson.” TwoIdeasTodayJobsDiesTeachTheaterTiredYesterdayBalletI'm TiredWaitressClevelandSalespersonTwo Jobs Author:Maya Angelou
“I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.” GrewGrew UpTheaterBallet Author:Maureen O'Hara
“If I didn't have kids, I would be at the theater or the ballet every single night of my life.” IfsWould BeKidsNightTheaterBallet Author:Sarah Jessica Parker
“Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.” FeelsArtDiesWinningSportsStepsAudienceFrontsPerformancesTheaterCrisisCourtTennisMotivational SportsBalletWhisperingAnnaIcyNow Or Never Author:Bill Tilden
“Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.” ArtSportsPerformancesTheaterTennisBallet Author:Bill Tilden
“When you are on stage in front of an audience, you want to engage the entire crowd. If a thousand people are in the theater, you need to dance a thousand different ways, not one-thousandth of a way.” PeopleIfsWayWantNeedsDifferentAudienceStageFrontsThousandTheaterCrowdsDifferent WaysBallet Author:Suzanne Farrell
“At our theaters we only see feeble copies of the copies that have proceeded them, renounce that slavish routine which keeps your art in its infancy; examine everything relative to the development of talents; be original; form a style for yourselves based on your private studies; if you must copy, imitate nature, it is a noble model and never misleads those who follow it.” IfsArtFormStudyTalentStyleDevelopmentModelsTheaterOriginalsNobleCopiesRoutineRelativeBalletMisleadInfancyRenounce Author:Jean-Georges Noverre