“I don't want people who want to dance, I want
people who have to dance. ”
― George
Balanchine
“Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you
holding back? What are you saving for—for another time? There are no other
times. There is only now. Right now.”
― George
Balanchine
See the music, hear the dance.”
― George
Balanchine
“Someone once said that dancers work just as hard as
policeman, always alert, always tense. But i dont agree with that because
policeman don't have to look beautiful at the same time" * ”
― George
Balanchine
“Dancing is
music made visible.”
― George
Balanchine
“God creates, I do not create.
I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it –
from
what I see, from what the dancers can do,
from
what others do...”
― George
Balanchine
“The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician”
― George
Balanchine
“What are you
waiting for? What are you saving for? Now is all there is.”
― George
Balanchine
“Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file
cabinet.”
― George
Balanchine
“Dancers are instruments, like a piano the
choreographer plays.”
― George
Balanchine
George Balanchine
born
in Saint
Petersberg , Russian Federation
January 22, 1904
died
April 30, 1983
website
http://balanchine.org/balanchine/index.html
genre
Biographies &
Memoirs, Music, Arts & Photography
George Balanchine, born
Giorgi Melitonis dze Balanchivadze in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to Georgian
parents, was one of the 20th century's foremost choreographers, a pioneer of
ballet in the United States, co-founder and balletmaster of New York City Ballet:
his work created modern ballet, based on his deep knowledge of classical forms
and techniques. He was a choreographer known for his musicality; he did not
illustrate music but expressed it in dance and worked extensively with Igor
Stravinsky, his contemporary.
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