The pointes for girls, I always say, have to be like an elephant's trunk; strong and yet flexible and soft.
George BalanchineMost ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George BalanchineI don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.
George Balanchine