Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.
I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
I haven't danced since 1973; I'm too old.
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.
Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.
I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.