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Small: I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pre
Matthew Bourne
"I saw the Nutcracker to be a dummy as I thought of its mouth moving like a nutcracker - and also find them pretty scary as they almost have a life of their own"
Matthew Bourne, Dancer
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Small: One is born to be a great dancer
"One is born to be a great dancer"
George Balanchine, Dancer
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Small: In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal
"In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better"
George Balanchine, Dancer
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Small: In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we cant dance synonyms
"In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms"
George Balanchine, Dancer
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Small: But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe
Ruth St. Denis
"But in reality we are accompanied by the whole dancing universe"
Ruth St. Denis, Dancer
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Small: You cant stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you cant stop it, you shouldnt, because it
"You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone"
Ninette de Valois, Dancer
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Small: Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull
"Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull"
Ninette de Valois, Dancer
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Small: And then you have the classical ballerinas, theyre like sopranos. Applied to the dance
"And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance"
Ninette de Valois, Dancer
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Small: Sometimes you dont know what youve got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the s
Matthew Bourne
"Sometimes you don't know what you've got until you put it in front of an audience - and the enthusiasm for the show from the audience has been just incredible"
Matthew Bourne, Dancer
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Small: Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned
"Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned"
George Balanchine, Dancer
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Small: When you are on stage, you dont see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in
"When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: There is pain and sacrifice in everyones world. Thats why, when I was dancing, I had no pain
"There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and m
"That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child
"In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mothers or your grandmothers dresses and high heels
"I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics
"I think especially in a world where you have so little say about what goes on in your life, or in the politics of the world around you, it is wonderful to go into that studio, and tell yourself what to do"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. Im always moving around
"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate
"As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God
Ruth St. Denis
"You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God"
Ruth St. Denis, Dancer
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Small: We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that whi
Ruth St. Denis
"We can scale the heights of mountains and see the world rayed out before us, but we fail to recognize that which is before us"
Ruth St. Denis, Dancer
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Small: Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to re
Ruth St. Denis
"Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion"
Ruth St. Denis, Dancer
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Small: The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points a
"The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method"
Ninette de Valois, Dancer
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Small: First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and car
"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out"
Ninette de Valois, Dancer
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Small: The dance world is too small in lots of ways - its too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposin
"The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas"
Siobhan Davies, Dancer
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Small: Independent dance - and, fine, its a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all
"Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work"
Siobhan Davies, Dancer
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Small: You dont learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but yo
"You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for
"The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: Its ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You havent lived in t
"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: I didnt have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes
"I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes"
Suzanne Farrell, Dancer
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Small: My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens
Katherine Dunham
"My work has been much more Caribbean and eclectic. I am interested in people, and where they come from happens to have fallen within an area of Africa"
Katherine Dunham, Dancer
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