“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.”
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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.
George Balanchine 
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The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener.
George Balanchine
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In my ballets, woman is first. Men are consorts. God made men to sing the praises of women. They are not equal to men: They are better.
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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.
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