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" I grew up going on vacations with my family to New York every summer, and it's something that I always looked forward to. They'd take me to theater and shows and interesting restaurants, so I was genuinely really excited to move there. "

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" What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a cohesive experience. "

Justin Peck

Together

Great

Experience

" I always feel that the mark of a good ballet is that when you see it more than once, you get more out of it. "

" I think ballet has a bad reputation of being stuffy and depleted. "

" I try and create choreography that's in conversation with the music that the audience is hearing. "

" When I saw 'Hamilton,' there was so much information so fast, I had to keep up with it. I find that quality in art exhilarating. "

" It's nice to have the support and infrastructure to do what I want creatively. That's kind of a rare thing to find. "

" My intention is to make sure that the new work being created for the ballet world is relevant. "

" I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above. "

" I like graceful and elegant partnering that gives an illusion of ease instead of emphasizing difficulty. I don't want to make something 'contemporary' or 'trendy,' because ballet doesn't progress on one track: it can branch out in many directions, and as Balanchine showed, there's always room for pure classicism and more subtle alterations of it. "

" To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible. "

Justin Peck

Ballet

Accessible

" My movement is usually about finding the balance between artistry, athleticism, and musicality. It always originates with a classical basis and expands outwards from that platform. "

" I'm always interested in linking dance to mundane behavior that everyone can relate to. "

" The idea of having a narrative guiding the viewer through and grasping their attention is a really compelling thing. "

" I think that story ballets, as great as they might sell, they're a really dated and awkward medium to tell stories through. I think there needs to be an updated or different approach to storytelling in dance. There needs to be less of a separation between the storytelling and the dancing. "

" I've always liked vintage posters of California beaches. "

" I think it's interesting for people to be exposed to ballet in areas they wouldn't necessarily expect to see it. "

" There is something very cyclical about the way fashion designers work. They work and work and work, the collection is finally shown, and after those 15 minutes, they must start over from the beginning. This is not unlike the way I work creating new dances. "

" There needs to be more encouragement and support for women - at an impressionable age - to explore that choreographic side of their brains. "

" My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist. "

" My choreography is very classically based. "

" For me, the choreography always comes from the music. "

Justin Peck

Music

Choreography

" There's an innate feeling when I choreograph in juxtaposition to how I feel as a dancer. When I choreograph, I never really look into the mirror. But as dancers, we always check ourselves in the mirror. I do feel that when I choreograph, I am making a dance on my own body. Much of it is my own response to the music. "

" The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with gender roles, then I think it will change. But if that's not of interest to a dance-maker, if their interest is to sort of preserve the way things have been done for the past 200 years, then nothing is going to change. "

" I really enjoyed watching a ballerina named Denise Dabrowski who used to dance at California Ballet. She was a beautiful ballerina and role model for a lot of young dancers. "

" The ballet world, it's a crazy world. "

" It's amazing what a resource modern technology is now for making ballets, and I film my rehearsals almost every day. "

" My philosophy on choreography is that the making of a ballet is a team effort, and we're in this together. It's not me hammering on them. It's more about how we can elevate this piece collectively to something great. "

Justin Peck

Together

Team

" American ballet... is ultimately an evolutionary art form, requiring many voices to creatively carry forward. "

" I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you have your paint, and you have canvas, and you just go at it. I'm working with these living, breathing, functioning human beings, and they have their own thoughts and ideas about what works well movement-wise. "

" I would love to work with Joanna Newsom on a ballet. I think that would be amazing. She has a gift for orchestrating and composing, and I think she would be really engaging to work with. "