Choreographer Quotes · Page 2

“Show me a person who found love in his life and did not celebrate it with a dance.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Dance to inspire, dance to freedom, life is about experiences so dance and let yourself become free.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“Through synergy of intellect, artistry and grace came into existence the blessing of a dancer.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

— Danny Aiello

Had I not been a choreographer, I would have become nothing more than a traffic cop or peon in an office.

— Prabhu Deva

Bob Fosse, the choreographer. is a very, very good friend. He has helped me enormously.

— Joey Heatherton

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else. Don't dance for the audience; dance for yourself.”

— Bob Fosse

“Burdened no more is soul for whom life flows through dance like breath.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability…

— Sandra Bullock

“While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time.…

— Torron-Lee Dewar

An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into…

— Donnie Yen

Martin Joyce is a beautiful dancer and an amazing choreographer. He choreographed the Mulberry dance film I was in, 'From London with…

— Cressida Bonas

It is now, after doing TV shows and so much work, that people have accepted me as a great choreographer. So I…

— Remo D'Souza

I was in a ballet company, and I auditioned for Bob Alton, a top choreographer at MGM. He sent me to see…

— Cyd Charisse

“Dance as the narration of a magical story; that recites on lips, illuminates imaginations and embraces the most sacred depths of souls.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I thought I had to make an impact on history. I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was…

— Twyla Tharp

I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and…

— Barbara Mandrell

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can…

— Feist

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,'…

— Robert Gottlieb

So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for…

— Alonzo King

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and…

— Donnie Yen

It's called the Ailey American Dance Theatre, not the Alvin Ailey African-American Dance Theatre. One thing also that Alvin wanted people to…

— Judith Jamison

The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to…

— Gerald Arpino

When you're a choreographer and you put so much into a routine that's emotionally driven, those are like my ideas and my…

— Derek Hough

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

— Lucinda Childs

“She who is a dancer can only sway the silk of her hair like the summer breeze.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“If movements were a spark every dancer would desire to light up in flames.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

— Deepak Chopra

You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.

— Chita Rivera

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

— Daisy Shah

“Sometimes in life confusion tends to arise and only dialogue of dance seems to make sense.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

— Donald O'Connor

“If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

— Pina Bausch

I'm a choreographer and a director, and I have no ambition beyond that.

— Matthew Bourne

On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.

— Toni Basil

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

— Judith Jamison

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

— Prabhu Deva

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

— George Balanchine

“Dance is that delicacy of life radiating every particle of our existence with happiness.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi