Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ballet was so structured. I'd been craving something that could guide me.
Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was something that I loved and that I wanted to do.
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
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 is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.
I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
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 is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.