Vivienne

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
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― Merce Cunningham

“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible.
If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.”
― George Balanchine

“I don’t understand anything about the ballet; all I know is that during the intervals the ballerinas stink like horses.”
― Anton Chekhov

“You're a fridge with wings. We're freaking ballet dancers! -Fang”
― James Patterson, School's Out—Forever