Justin Peck Quotes

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

My movement is usually about finding the balance between artistry, athleticism, and musicality. It always originates with a classical basis and expands outwards from that platform.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.

Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.

Ballet is one form which I really want Indians to practice it.

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.

My choreography is very classically based.

Even though I'm a gymnast, I've always loved dancing.

I am a trained classical dancer.

Whether it's dance or action, what's important is hand and body co-ordination. When you are a good dancer then automatically while performing action, the co-ordination is that much easier.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

I very much like dance and dancers.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.