Mozart's job classification was to write music, which he did for ballets and operas. He got paid to do that, and taught on the side. He wasn't a waiter. He didn't sell mutual funds. Those are all noble professions, but if you want to be a professional composer, then you're writing dramatic music for film and television.
Quotes about ballets (13 Quotes)
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.
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.
I don't consider this a comedic role. I consider it a serious contribution to one of the classic ballets. I'm not sure if everyone will see it that way.
Miller has had the Russian National Ballet perform several ballets over the years. They are an outstanding company of dancers.
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.
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.
I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.
Ballet is just a vocabulary like English. Most classical ballets emphasize how high a woman can hold her leg, how skinny she is and all the tricks she can do. She may not ever have to express anything but extreme happiness or sadness. These ballets rarely interpret life. They are fables with princesses and fairies.
We are the organization on campus that brings all of the big name touring shows like Broadway shows, pop artists, comedians, ballets, and symphonies. We're the second oldest of our type that's affiliated with a university in the country so it's a really big plus for the university.
A repertory, a patrimony of ballets, tended as carefully as the collection of 600-year-old bonsai in Tokyo's Imperial Palace conservatory, is not replaced it is preserved, maintained, refreshed to give rebirth by grafting and seedlings.
Susan is using a lot of references to film noir and to the classic ballets. Its going to be very layered choreography.