Ballet is an incredibly difficult, beautiful art form that takes a lot of training, a lot of time, and a lot of hard work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Ballet can be grueling, for sure, but it gives you a certain discipline.
It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.
I started ballet in my early 20s. I studied for about ten years. Ballet is probably the one of the hardest things I've done, almost like MMA. People don't give it a lot of credit and think it's easy, but it's very difficult. For an athlete, you use muscles you really don't use, and ballet is something I really respect.
Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.
Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
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.
I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
In terms of withstanding incredible amounts of pain - both physical and emotional - I don't think there's any better training than ballet.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.