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Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.

'The Sleeping Beauty' is the greatest, most challenging and most vulnerable of classical ballets. Everything can go wrong with it, and all too often, everything does.

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

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

Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.

I think that every year that the New York City Ballet is alive is worthy of celebration. Because otherwise the terrible thing is just that we take it for granted.

I hated the ballet, but I liked performing. I did 20 shows, and I couldn't get the smile off my face.

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.

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of standards can only erode the art form we all love.