The heart of the classical repertory is the Tchaikovsky-Petipa 'Sleeping Beauty,' and no ballet is harder to get right.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
'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.
Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
Russians are very discerning about ballet. They're very opinionated about what classical ballet is.
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.
Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.
Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.