Ballet Style Quotes

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

I live in my Ballet Beautiful street shoes.

I love street and I love ballet and I love to convey what I can.

The Bolshoi style is bigger and more emotional, in a way that I love. It has the freshness and intensity that is like what I've tried to achieve in my dance-acting roles.

I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something 'contemporary' or 'trendy,' because ballet doesn't progress on one track: it can branch out in many directions, and as Balanchine showed, there's always room for pure classicism and more subtle alterations of it.

I love how chic yet simple ballet style is for everyday dressing.