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

There's only a certain amount of space in every ballet company. You're basically on a team. You want to succeed as a group but all want to have the same roles.

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

I think American Ballet Theatre is setting that standard now for classical ballet, that you can dream big, and it doesn't matter what you look like, where you come from, what your background is.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

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

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.

I want to bring awareness to the lack of diversity in ballet, and feel like that's a large part of my purpose.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.