If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Most dancers have no awareness of how they look; half of them think they're fat. There is anorexia in the ballet world; there are those things.
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.
Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then.
When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.
Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
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.
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it. Is it irresistible charm? Chutzpah? Pure determination? Blackmail? Or are so many supposedly knowledgeable people just plain blind?
A dancer's career is short - you just keep going until your legs pack up.
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