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I have done the company lifestyle for 16 years, and ballet has changed.

~Carla Korbes

Topics: Ballet Changed Company Done Lifestyle Years

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I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.

~Carla Korbes

Topics: Dancing Ok Percent

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By the end of 'Swan Lake,' you know how there's all the corps on stage, and she keeps running in the back, doing arms? You can't feel your arms. You're just like, 'Ow.'

~Carla Korbes

Topics: Arms Back Corps Doing End Feel How Just Keeps Know Lake Like Running She Stage Swan You Your

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At age 14, coming to the U.S., all I knew was American Ballet Theatre, Baryshnikov, Nureyev, and some of the European companies. I barely knew anything about Balanchine.

~Carla Korbes

Topics: About Age American Anything Ballet Barely Coming Companies European Knew Some Theatre

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Today, dancers have so much more information and are much more mobile. Kids are traveling everywhere to go to summer programs, funding themselves with Kickstarter - putting their dreams on the Internet and seeing if they will pan out.

~Carla Korbes

Topics: Dancers Dreams Everywhere Funding Go Information Internet Kickstarter Kids Mobile More Much Out Pan Programs Putting Seeing Summer Themselves Today Traveling Will

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There are positives to moving around and changing companies: you put things in perspective; you can compare living and working conditions. Living in one city, you tend to take things for granted; your view is much more narrow. In Europe, a dancer can leave for a year and still keep her original contract.

~Carla Korbes

Topics: Around Changing City Companies Compare Conditions Contract Dancer Europe Granted Her Keep Leave Living More Moving Much Narrow Original Perspective Positives Put Still Take Tend Things View Working Year You Your

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I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.

~Carla Korbes

Topics: After Body Check Confused Eat Feel Feel Good Gathering Good How Information Just Learned Makes Overwhelmed Teenager Then Whatever Years I Feel

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Biography

Nationality: Brazilian

Type: Dancer

Born: Unknown

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