Nursing a bottle from a half-floor above, Johnny Jukes…

“The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves”

— joseph conrad

I go to a lot of rap shows and sometimes take what they do from a performer's aspect, how they interact with the crowd.…

— Hannibal Buress

There were ten dancers - four guys and six girls - including me, on the Beyonce tour. Sometimes we would go out with her,…

— Heather Morris

The Paddy Stone dancers were all upwards of 5ft 6in and stunningly beautiful. I was stocky, tough-looking and 5ft 3in. So I became determined…

— Arlene Phillips

Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are…

— Sylvie Guillem

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

— Karen Kain

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

— Anne Sexton

I would advise dancers, musicians and others in the entertainment industry to take up yoga, as it clears the mind and creates a sense…

— Emmanuel Jal

“We would all be better off dead, useless eaters of the lotus that we are.”

— Michael Moorcock

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

— Mary Helen Bowers

I want to take this art form to a whole new level in India so that kids say that they want to become dancers…

— Shakti Mohan

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for…

— Siobhan Davies

For 20 years, I've been running an institute in Chennai where serious dancers from Kerala come with aspirations of becoming professional dancers.

— Shobana

Whenever there's a speciality dance, such as the Charleston or the Argentine Tango, 'Strictly' enlists expert choreographers to work with the professional dancers.

— Angela Rippon

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

— Judith Jamison