I would be ready to take over tomorrow. But first of all, all fat and lazy members of the troupe would have to be thrown out. - Rudolf Nureyev

Nureyev had an iron will and was totally dedicated to his art. He became the highest paid ballet dancer in the world, he made ballet popular, he became the rock-star of ballet, he changed male dancing in the classics making the part of the male dancer the equal of the ballerina; he created a new approach to ballet erasing the differences between classical ballet and modern dancing.

Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

Musicals gave the U.S. an ethnic culture that undoubtedly influenced ballet.