Quotes by George Balanchine

George Balanchine

Ballet dancing is arduous, strenuous activity. Students are engaged in physical training that rivals the training Olympic athletes undergo. At the same time, they strive for physical perfection not for the prowess alone but as a way of achieving the means necessary to express the pure nature of their art.

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Athlete

Dance

Ballet is important and significant – yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Ballet

Dance

Important

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

Ballet

Speak

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don’t think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

Dance

Motivational

Thinking

Dance is music made visible

Dance

Made

Visible

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Ballet Class

Dance

Play

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you’re very lucky and have said your prayers.

Dance

Prayer

Sweat

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it – from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

Ballet Teachers

Dance

Stealing

I am a cloud – in trousers.

Ballet

Clouds

Dance

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

Ballet

Believe

Movement

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Quotes by George Balanchine

George Balanchine

Ballet is important and significant – yes. But first of all, it is a pleasure.

Ballet will speak for itself. About itself.

Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don’t think so much about it. Just make something interesting.

Dance is music made visible

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you’re very lucky and have said your prayers.

God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it – from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

I am a cloud – in trousers.

I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

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