It is a great experience in a good environment, you get to see and be seen by people of power in the ballet world. You could end up dancing with a top company if everything goes well.

More important than innate disposition, objective experience, and environment is the subjective evaluation of these. Furthermore, this evaluation stands in a certain, often strange, relation to reality.

I told them from my experience [that] to put a victim and a perpetrator together in a very loose environment is completely unsupportable.

It costs a lot to study dance. Even if you are good enough, sometimes you just don't have the money.

I'm very hurt. We were all excited to get on the water this week. We've been working so hard to get on the water.

It's probably cliche to say this, but in my experience, people are far more alike than they are dissimilar.