If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

Writing is the process by which you explain to yourself what happened to you.

True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.

If Balanchine had any secret, it was one that has endured through two hundred years of classical ballet. It is that dancing correctly in three dimensions, on the music, creates the fourth dimension of meaning.