Quotes about Ballet

We have nonbelievers, atheists, intellects, cynicists... all kinds of what-have-yous in here tonight, but all of them want to see that fella in the tights end up with that swan girl, so she'll be able to get out of that lake.  Only with the love of one who has never loved before can the spell be broken.  Why?  Who the hell cares why?  Do you think your woman with the feathers is going to ask why?  No.  She's just going to say thank you because then she can move on and wear nice dresses and go for walks instead of having to peck at soggy bread in a stinky lake every day for the rest of her life.

I knew the moment I met her that she was trouble...
or that I was in trouble...
or that we would get into trouble together -
and then we danced.
                                                             ~ Scott Nilsson

Dancing is the world's most famous metaphor.
                                                        ~ Kristy Nilsson

Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor.
                                             ~ Kristy Nilsson

Dance is advanced body language.
                                  ~ Kristy Nilsson

It is not the movements that make a dance beautiful, it is the emotions that inspired the movements that make it beautiful.  ~ Kristy Nilsson

Musicality is when
the dancers' movements appear to create the music -
and not the other way around.
~ Kristy Nilsson

Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor.  ~ Kristy Nilsson

Dance is the poetic baring of the soul through motion.  ~ Scott Nilsson

Dance - no translation needed.
~ Kristy Nilsson

It is not the movementsthat make a dance beautiful, it is the emotions that inspired the movementsthat make it beautiful.  ~ Kristy Nilsson

Musicality is when the dancers' movements appear to create the music - and not the other way around.  ~ Kristy Nilsson

It is not the movements
that make a dance beautiful,
it is the emotions that inspired the movements
that make it beautiful.
~ Kristy Nilsson

Dancing is the world's
favorite metaphor.
~ Kristy Nilsson

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper . . . every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Non cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.

My life isn't theories and formulas. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone . . . from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.