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“That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing and, I think, would have liked to have been a dancer herself. So she pushed me a lot when I was very young, but I loved it. All I really wanted to be was a dancer. There's a discipline in dance that you don't get anywhere else.”
Donna Mills
“It's so important to have someone that actually knows the ballet, ... Not just the steps, but the style and the musicality. And the subtext, not just the context.”
Robert Weiss
“I liked math. Counting was easy for me, which was good, because a lot of the ballets have involved difficult counts.”
Suzanne Farrell
“On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.”
“I come from a ballet background; I did ballet for 12 years and I consider that my theater. I told stories with my body for 12 years and then came into this industry. I couldn't let go of that and it's still important to me. I really wanted to learn the skills of what Aeon had. I wanted to learn gymnastics; I didn't want to just be on wires and fake everything. I learned some skills I never thought I would learn.”
Charlize Theron
“Another fascinating aspect, ... is that it can be a completely different ballet depending on who's dancing it. It's so simple but it's so revealing, and it can tell such completely different stories.”
Julie Kent
“Through ballet I was fortunate to find a place to escape, a refuge from my feelings of being an outsider. The dance studio was the one place I felt accepted and 'just like everybody else' was in the dance studio. Hoping to improve the rhythm of my speech, my mother had enrolled me in a ballet class when I was five years old. The ballet class boosted my self-esteem.”
Heather Whitestone
“With each ballet we know what to expect. A pas de deux brings out a lot of excitement. And a lot of champagne.”
Walter Nurena
“Judo is like a ballet, except there's no music,and the dancers knock each other down."”
Female Imagination
“My grandmother had a Miss Margaret's School of Dance to teach tap and ballet to kids, but I never studied it. I was raised a Mormon and they're dancing fools. It's the only vice they have - dancing.”
Michelle Shocked
