Darcey Bussell famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It's very easy to become selfish and narrow-minded and see ballet as the only thing in life, but there's lots more.
-- Darcey Bussell

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You have to be able to cut off from the ballet and relax, or you have anxiety dreams at night, worrying about what you're going to dance the next day, going over every little detail.
-- Darcey Bussell

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Being a mother has made my life complete.
-- Darcey Bussell

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Ballet is quite unnatural on the joints. My body is just worn. My joints are 10 years older than me.
-- Darcey Bussell

#Years #Ballet #Body

The practice mirror is to be used for the correction of faults, not for a love affair, and the figure you watch should not become your dearest friend.
But remember that intent is everything. One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises. In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door. This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics. The dancer tries to express something; the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds. The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea.
To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.
Is not sorrow, all sorrow, selfish?
You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.
In swimming at my level it's about control of the small movements. A good ballet dancer floats across the stage, the best sprinters virtually abolish gravity. All motion occurs in the right direction.
Be IN it. Get drunk in the moment.
I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.
Coming near him like a ballet dancer she took a leap towards him, and he, frightened by her vehemence, and fearing that she would crash against him, instinctively became absolutely rigid, and she felt herself embracing a statue.
Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an aesthetic clarity to all motions.

Darcey Bussell famous quotes

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