It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
True genius doesn't fulfill expectations, it shatters them.
Style consists in maintaining a convincing reality all through a piece. It's like wearing a garment that looks as if it might have been made for you even if it wasn't.
Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.
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.