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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.

At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

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.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I love ballet. Ballet is its own being. It has its own vocabulary. I feel as if I am in a different world when I am in the ballet studio.

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.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.