A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do. — Twyla Tharp Copy Share Image
All the Bollywood choreographers are so talented and inspiring. I am learning a lot just by observing their work. — Shakti Mohan Copy Share Image
The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography. — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an… — Alvin Ailey Copy Share Image
Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer. — Sergei Polunin Copy Share Image
If words were adequate to describe fully what the dance can do, there would be no reason for all the mighty muscular… — Jose Limon Copy Share Image
I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to… — Angel Corella Copy Share Image
We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is… — PSY Copy Share Image
I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
Michael Bennett, Tommy Tune and Agnes de Mille fought to be director-choreographers. They were just not going to do it any other… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince,… — Jose Limon Copy Share Image
Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were… — Jennifer Dunning Copy Share Image
You are not a female or a male - you are a dancer. And when I started going into choreography I became… — Anne Fletcher Copy Share Image
GRINNING, DUCKING MY HEAD FOR BALANCE, I START TO SPIN WILDLY AS I CAN. THAT IS MY FAVORITE DANCE, BECAUSE IT CONTAINS… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
You are the only one of you. From the beginning of time till the end of this world to the end of… — Mia Michaels Copy Share Image
We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for… — Alonzo King Copy Share Image
We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is… — George Balanchine Copy Share Image
Solo dancing does not exist: the dancer dances with the floor: add another dancer and you have a quartet: each dance with… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable -… — Harry Shum, Jr Copy Share Image
Stay hungry to become the best that you can be. Never be satisfied with the level of artistry you've attained. You can… — Mia Michaels Copy Share Image
Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find… — Wayne McGregor Copy Share Image
Even as one of the best choreographers in the country, I was criticised for a lot of things I have done in… — Farah Khan Copy Share Image
When I miss class for one day, I know it. When I miss class for two days, my teacher knows it. When… — Rudolf Nureyev Copy Share Image
I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
Movement should be approached like life - with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude - for movement is life, and life is movement, and… — Ron Fletcher Copy Share Image
A dancer should learn from all the arts. Go to museums and look at the paintings. See how they balance things. Everything… — Alicia Alonso Copy Share Image
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to… — Joan Tewkesbury Copy Share Image
Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation… — Rudolf von Laban Copy Share Image
The mystery of Christopher Wheeldon deepens. Yes, he's the most talented of the younger ballet choreographers - indeed, where's the competition? Yes,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did… — Elizabeth Streb Copy Share Image
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Just the pleasure of moving and the pleasure of using your body is, I think, maybe the main point. And the pleasure… — Steve Paxton Copy Share Image
I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing… — Mithun Chakraborty Copy Share Image
Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in… — Paul Lansky Copy Share Image
