It's hard to be the one that stands out when, you know, in a ballet company, you're trying to create unison and uniform when you're in a corps de ballet.
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There's only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You're basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the not-yet stars, the up-and-comers.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is.
I am passionate about ballet.
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
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