The highly concentrated nature of ballet tends to turn most dancers into very nervous people. It is almost constitutionally impossible to be calm and relaxed when the successes or failures in your career depend on a few minutes of intense dancing, and when your artistry is constantly put to the test. A dancer's fame is ephemeral, and leaves no lasting mark, except in the spectator's memory. A dancer's fame is fluid, because it depends on the sum total of his or her performances, never on a single perfect moment. Finally, a dancer's fame is intangible, because it reflects a highly personal, yet harmonious, unity of movement, technique, maturity, musicality and "soul."
Ballet as body language by Joan McConnell. 1977. Page 129.
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