top of page
.png){kind=small}
Exlpore more Ballet quotes
"I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Deborah Bull
"Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet."
Ballet
"It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is."
Fitness
"A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school."
School
"People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!"
Love
"I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job."
Dance
"It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine."
Dance
"You increase muscle bulk by training against resistance. For example, weights. And in ballet, this isn't the case."
Ballet
"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
Space
"I get to the theatre in plenty of time; I prepare my shoes in advance; I eat and drink the right things at the right time. The rest you have to leave to luck!"
Time
"I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea."
Experience
bottom of page