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David Hallberg Quotes

American - Dancer | -

I love the dancers in the Bolshoi, but all of my Moscow friends are outside the company. A friend introduced me to Vika Gazinskaya, a well-known Russian designer. I met her group. The rest is history.

Love Friend History Me Rest Friends

When I went to Moscow, I felt I was relearning Swan Lake - which was written for the Bolshoi - and being immersed in a tradition and history I had never experienced. It took a while to adjust to living there and learning the language, but now I have lots of friends. I get the best of two completely different worlds.

Learning History Best Language Lake

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer.

Walk Duck Down Dead Up And Down Up

Every company has its own texture, vocabulary, and singular place in dance history, and I have always wanted to share my perspective of these world renowned institutions.

History Perspective Dance World Own

Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

Style Company Choreography Attack

New York at times runs me dry because there's so much to do. There's never enough time to do everything. It's nice to have the balance in Moscow.

Time Balance New York Me Enough New

Because of the way I'm built, I constantly have to strengthen. This is sort of a ritual: I put on my tights first, and right when I'm about to put on my costume, I get down on the floor, and I plank.

Down Way First Right Floor Costume

I sew my own shoes. Other male dancers don't, but I like it one way, and I've learned to do it that way.

Shoes Way My Own Own Dancers Like

Ballet is incestuous. This world is smaller than small.

World Small Than Ballet Smaller

Bejart is almost never performed in New York City; critically, he just gets attacked here.

New York City New Never Here Just

I stopped acting Romeo and just became Romeo.

Acting Just Stopped Romeo Became

The Bolshoi style is bigger and more emotional, in a way that I love. It has the freshness and intensity that is like what I've tried to achieve in my dance-acting roles.

Love Style Achieve Way More Bigger

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