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Quotes by George
Balanchine
“Dance is music made
visible.”
- George
Balanchine
“I don't want dancers
who want to dance.
I want dancers who have
to dance.”
- George
Balanchine
“Dancers are instruments, like a
piano the choreographer plays.”
- George
Balanchine
”The mirror is not
you.
The mirror is you
looking at yourself.”
- George
Balanchine
“One is born to be a
dancer.
No teacher can work
miracles, nor will years of training
make
a good
dancer of an untalented
pupil.
One may be able to acquire a certain
technical facility,
but no one can ever 'acquire an
exceptional talent.'
I have never
prided myself on having an unusually gifted
pupil.
A
Pavlova is no one's pupil but
God's.”
- George Balanchine
”First comes the sweat. Then comes the
beauty
if you're very lucky and
have said your prayers.”
- George Balanchine
”The ballet is a purely
female
thing;
it is a woman, a garden of beautiful
flowers,
and man is the
gardener.”
- George
Balanchine
”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...”
- George Balanchine
”Ballet is important and
significant –
yes.
But first of all, it is
a pleasure.”
- 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 alonebut as a way of achieving the
means necessary
to express the pure nature of
their art.”
- George
Balanchine
”(Choreography) is
simpler than you
think.
Just go and do, and don't think so much
about it.
Just make something
interesting.”
- George
Balanchine
”It's like the time
capsule with everything in
it.
Or like the seed that when you plant
it,
becomes the enormous tree with leaves
and fruit.
Everybody was in that little seed, and
so everything can open.
The tree of dance is like that.
It just takes a
long, long time to blossom.
”
- George
Balanchine
”The choreographer and
the dancer must
remember
that they reach the audience through the
eye.
It's the illusion created which
convinces the audience,
much as it is with the
work of a magician.”
- George
Balanchine
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