My first ballet class was on a basketball court. I'm in my gym clothes and my socks trying to do this thing called ballet. I didn't know anything about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I was sent to ballet classes when I was a little girl. I wasn't very good, but it's that thing where little girls always try ballet, or whatever.
Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.
My family didn't have very much money, so ballet wasn't even on my radar; I just found it randomly when I was 13 at a Boys & Girls Club. We were practicing in a basketball court in gym clothes with some old socks on. Even though it terrified me at first, I found that I really liked it.
Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
Ballet is completely unnatural to the body, just being turned-out... it's not the way your body is supposed to function, so you actually train your body to be a different structure than you were born with.
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.