Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Gelsey Kirkland (American Ballerina)

Gelsey Kirkland (b.1952) is an American ballerina. One of the most admired ballerinas of her generation was one of the last to catch the eye of the choreographer George Balanchine. She is best known for her legendary partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov, one of the most excellent male ballet dancers.

Born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Kirkland studied at the School of American Ballet and joined New York City Ballet at age 15, becoming a principal in 1972. Roles were created for her by the choreographers George Balanchine (1970, The Firebird,) Jerome Robbins (1971, The Goldberg Variations and 1973, An Evening’s Waltzes,) and by Antony Tudor in his last two ballets, The Leaves are Fading (1975) and The Tillers in the Fields (1978.)

In 1975, Kirkland moved to the American Ballet Theater, where she began a highly successful offstage and onstage partnership with Mikhail Baryshnikov. A troubled personal life (anorexia and cocaine addiction) hampered her career in the early 1980s, but she successfully came back in Swan Lake with the Royal Ballet in London.

Kirkland’s controversial autobiographies, Dancing on My Grave (1986) and The Shape of Love (1990,) document her career.

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Fortunately for children, the uncertainties of the present always give way to the enchanted possibilities of the future.
Gelsey Kirkland
Topics: Tomorrow, The Future

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