"One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing."
"Dance has become an exclusionary enterprise. To participate, one must be thinner than thin, of pleasing form, flexible, athletic and young. If you are not all these things, you will be allowed to dance in the privacy of your own living room. You just wouldn't dare to put yourself onstage."
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Source: Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
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