Royal Ballet Quotes

I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique. It's perfect. It's beautiful. It's well done. But it lacks the theatrical tradition that is so important in England. At the Royal Ballet, absolutely everyone on stage seems to be caught up in the plot.

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.

I joined the Royal Ballet School when I was 13. Before then, I'd done ballet twice a week after school. The rest of my class had started aged 11, so I'd missed two years and was really far behind.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

I do take class because I still dance, and yes, I do slip into class with the Royal Ballet from time to time.

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.

I had classical training at London's Royal Ballet School, and my first job was with the Semperoper Dresden ballet company in Germany.

I actually hated dancing. My mum used to have to bribe me to go by buying me things. A year before I stopped going, I was going to go for an audition with the Royal Ballet. It turned out I was a year too young. Because I was tall, they thought I was older. But before I had the chance to go back, I quit.