As for the once-revolutionary 'Agon,' after more than half a century, its lessons and revelations have been so absorbed into the language of ballet that it now seems almost conventional.
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The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.
What is true of ballet is no less true of the other lively arts. Change is built into their natures. You watch a performance, and then... it's gone.
Ballet was this thing that just felt so innate in me, like I was meant to be doing this.
I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.
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.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.
Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.
At least in my performances, the audience has become so diverse in a way that I don't think ballet has ever experienced.
I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.
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