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Definition of Ballet

Ballet

An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing.

The company of persons who perform the ballet.

A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers.

A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color.

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Ballet Quotations

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
Angelina Jolie

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
Rita Rudner

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Andy Rooney

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin Crisp

I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously.
Maureen O'Hara

I toured the Middle Eastern countries with the ballet.
Leslie Caron

A lot of people insisted on a wall between modern dance and ballet. I'm beginning to think that walls are very unhealthy things.
Twyla Tharp

The real American type can never be a ballet dancer. The legs are too long, the body too supple and the spirit too free for this school of affected grace and toe walking.
Isadora Duncan

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
Janice Dickinson

If a ballet dancer falls over, it's knowing how to get out looking clumsy that counts.
Ritchie Blackmore

Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura

Classical ballet will never die.
Ninette de Valois

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence.
Ninette de Valois

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do.
Suzanne Farrell

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life.
Suzanne Farrell

The particular ballet was not so important as the fact that I was physically healthy, and capable of getting out there and dancing as often as possible.
Suzanne Farrell

In fact, ballet companies did not exist in the Midwest when I was a child.
Suzanne Farrell

There might've been wires, but I have this ability to make myself light. Well you know what, in ballet, when you kind of lift yourself here, it's all up in the head.
Albert Finney

Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet.
Camille Paglia

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.
Sasha Cohen

Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important.
Mikhail Baryshnikov

You can't drink on an eight hour flight, pass out, and then go onstage... well you can, but then you're Spandau Ballet.
Robert Smith

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.
Neil Patrick Harris

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.
Amanda Seyfried

Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
Zoe Saldana

Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I'm physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don't think I'd look graceful at all on screen.
Zoe Saldana

I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
Zoe Saldana

I went to the Performing Arts School and studied classical ballet. That attitude is something that's put into your head. You are never thin enough.
Carmen Electra

I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.
Elizabeth Berkley

The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
Vanessa Carlton

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