Ballet Quote : But remember that intent is everything.
One does not just jump, one lifts into the air, one rises.
In the same way the lifted leg of an arabesque becomes a wing, and not a mechanical leverage like a raised trap door.
This is the precise difference between dancing and acrobatics.
The dancer tries to express something;
the acrobat merely pulls, raises, stretches and grinds.
The acrobat is lost in a web of muscles; the dancer is all but invisible in projected idea. - Agnes de Mille