One of the highlights for me has to be at the beginning with Balanchine who really got us going when she won the Oaks and the Irish Derby.
Quotes about balanchine (4 Quotes)
I never studied with Balanchine, but his work was very important to me.
The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, and Balanchine ballets don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world.
It's one of my most pure pieces, and not just the way it looks. Balanchine felt able to not use all his ideas, not to cram in information. I try to achieve that. It's another step closer to some kind of ideal. But it's not so simple as a classical notion of purity.