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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

Topics: Ballet Beautiful Female Flowers Garden Gardener Man Purely Thing Woman

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Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

~George Balanchine

Topics: Ballet Everyone Medicine Most Poisoned States Teachers Terrible United United States Were Would

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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.

~George Balanchine

Topics: Better Equal First God Made Men Praises Sing Woman Women

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In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell... we can't dance synonyms.

~George Balanchine

Topics: Ballet Complicated Dance Impossible Story Tell

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God creates, I do not create. I assemble and I steal everywhere to do it - from what I see, from what the dancers can do, from what others do.

~George Balanchine

Topics: Assemble Create Creates Dancers Everywhere God Others See Steal I See

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One is born to be a great dancer.

~George Balanchine

Topics: Born Dancer Great

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Dancer

Born: January 9th, 1904

Died: April 30th, 1983

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