George Balanchine Quotes About Dancing
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They are poets of gesture.
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First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
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The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself.
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Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.
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I don't want people who want to dance; I want people who have to dance.
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Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.
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We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.
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