Judith Viorst

I thought that the 40s was a tough decade, because it's when you finally figure out that you're not immortal, when you really start seeing that certain options are closed to you forever: You're not going to be a brain surgeon; you're not going to be a ballerina.

American Author

Orianthi

Girls are supposed to sing. It's the guys' thing to play the guitar. Crossing the line is kind of like trying to be a male ballerina. But if you work long and hard enough, are really passionate about it, people will finally shut up and listen.

Australian Musician

Jacqueline de Ribes

I was very sensitive. I liked everything that touched fantasy and beauty. I dreamed of being a ballerina, but Mother said I was too big, too long.

French Designer

Elle Fanning

I would like to continue acting. But also - if this is a dream world where everything could become true - I'd want to be a ballerina.

American Actress

Darcey Bussell

Being a ballerina can be a very unnatural life, especially after you've had children.

English Dancer

Kate Moss

In my next life, I'm going to be a rock star. I was a ballerina in my last life.

English Model

Dakota Fanning

I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.

Aretha Franklin

I guess I could've been a prima ballerina. Or a nurse. Aretha Nightingale!

American Musician

Shakti Mohan

My dance shoes - ballroom shoes, tap shoes, ballerinas - are my life.

Indian Dancer

Kiersey Clemons

Used only for female dancers. Male ballet dancers are called 'danseurs' or 'ballet dancers'.

Gender Specific

Implies high skill and often professional employment in ballet companies.

Professional Level

Ballerinas are often respected figures in the world of dance and culture.

Cultural Status

Ballerina shoes are for everyday wear, not just for dancing.

Casual Fashion

The shoe design mimics the aesthetic of actual ballet slippers but is modified for comfort.

Inspired Design

Ballerina flats are versatile, suiting many different outfits and occasions.

Versatile Shoe

 lens would normally go and this was a this was you know really important I chose to study this genus because they were very accessible they display on the ground and it seemed like a really great study and this is the view of the quintessential parodia courtship display we call this the ballerina dance and it

Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...

 When the leg comes back in towards the body, that stored momentum gets transferred back to the dancer's body, propelling her around as she rises back onto pointe. As the ballerina extends and retracts her leg with each turn, momentum travels back and forth between leg and body, keeping her in motion.

The physics of the...

 or the effortless poise of a prima ballerina. When used in every day life, the word symmetry represents vague notions of beauty, harmony and balance. In math and science, symmetry has a different, and very specific, meaning. In this technical sense, a symmetry is the property of an object.

The science of symmetry...

 period of a few days and he practices he practices relentlessly when there's not a female the one i love is where he goes up on sort of tippy toe the feathers sort of go into this sort of ballerina sort of bustle all around and then it has this iridescent bib at

Filming Birds of...

 when we're about five years old. And the truth is that no one really cares what you say when you're that age. It's considered an innocuous question, posed to little kids to elicit cute replies, like, "I want to be an astronaut," or "I want to be a ballerina,"

Why some of us don't...

 choreographers string these gestures together with new movements to form expressive combinations. Working alongside the orchestra’s live score, ballerinas precisely perform these combinations to convey narrative, emotion, and character.

What’s the point(e) of...

 some inventions that will of course improve the quality of life for so many people I have the improved ballet toe shoe which has a ridge to hold the ballerinas phalanges it's not something that a lot of people feel they need but

Bill Nye on Science &...

 depressed you're anxious and she wanted to help me so she looked at me and said if there was anything in the world that you could do what would you do and I told her I'd start a dance company she's a ballerina

Healing war wounds...

 still teaches dance and growing up I always wanted to be a dancer emulate my father and my goal in life was to be that prima ballerina even though there

Two Champions, One...

 than a couple of metres away and then she Pierrot netted like a ballerina and swept past me but she made so sure that she didn't hit me