QUOTE.

WHY BALLET?
"Because it is the STRONGEST technical base, it's wanting to be a writer and not having a vocabulary, if you only have five words it's not going to work. Now if you have the classical technique you can do any style you want. What artist do you know that has started at pop and gone to opera, but from opera you can always sing pop. The only one person I know who has done it is Aretha Franklin, she is the only artist that I have known that does pop or gospel or rock to give to Puccini or Verdi. She went on for Pavarotti, she went on when he was sick when they opened the Opera House at Detroit, she was the only one".
Arthur Mitchell. (Harlem Dance Company)