ballet

Dancing is the world's
favorite metaphor.
~ Kristy Nilsson

It is not the movements
that make a dance beautiful,
it is the emotions that inspired the movements
that make it beautiful.
~ Kristy Nilsson

Musicality is when the dancers' movements appear to create the music - and not the other way around.  ~ Kristy Nilsson

It is not the movementsthat make a dance beautiful, it is the emotions that inspired the movementsthat make it beautiful.  ~ Kristy Nilsson

Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper . . . every other dancer in the company was equally suspect.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet.

Non cooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, well, so is the ballet.

My life isn't theories and formulas. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone . . . from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.