Dances without purpose have false starts and stops.

The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.

— Brian Greene

Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that…

— Wayne McGregor

I am sincerely trying now to create a dance technique based entirely upon corrective exercises, created with a knowledge of human anatomy; a technique…

— Lester Horton

We dance to difference genres such as krumping, ballet and hip-hop, together with invited foreign choreographers who are well-known internationally.

— Jennie

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.

— Sylvie Guillem

Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose.

— Robert Gottlieb

The real self of an artiste lies in art, so when an artiste performs, all the pain, trauma and tension get released through art,…

— Mrinalini Sarabhai

The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.

— Jillian Hervey

There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

— Tatsumi Hijikata

I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them…

— Adam Shankman

Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with the other…

— Steve Paxton

Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can always be…

— Mia Michaels

When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When I miss…

— Rudolf Nureyev

You are not a female or a male - you are a dancer. And when I started going into choreography I became part of…

— Anne Fletcher

Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion of labels…

— Garth Fagan