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
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
Shakespeare has always been up for grabs, and choreographers have every right to use him any way they choose. — Robert Gottlieb 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
I was chosen over British and French choreographers to work on 'Bombay Dreams.' — Farah Khan 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
All the Bollywood choreographers are so talented and inspiring. I am learning a lot just by observing their work. — Shakti Mohan Copy Share Image
A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting,… — Laurieann Gibson Copy Share Image
I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird… — Adam Shankman Copy Share Image
It's like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It's very specific. You have to carefully plan it out.… — Bryan Cranston Copy Share Image
Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which… — Jack Anderson Copy Share Image
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart… — Mikhail Baryshnikov 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
When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on. Behind him he has… — Mikhail Baryshnikov Copy Share Image
The way Alvin Ailey has transformed modern dance and dance in general is the fact of variety. It's a cornucopia of ways… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
For most of human history, we could only watch, like bystanders, the beautiful dance of Nature. But today, we are on the… — Michio Kaku 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it. — Robert Gottlieb 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
“Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.” — Neil Gaiman 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
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 dance not to entertain but to help people better understand each other. Because through dance I have experienced the wordless joy… — Pearl Primus Copy Share Image
That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real… — Zeena Parkins Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want.… — Graeme Murphy Copy Share Image
It's all cyclical. Sometimes things just come in packs. At one point you had this collection of great choreographers where you would… — Ann Reinking Copy Share Image
Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
It's kind of become a journey about the dancers, but dancers are the reason why this show is so successful. They are… — Artem Chigvintsev Copy Share Image
Afro-Caribbean influences are in me as a creative being the same way Spanish influences were in Picasso's work. I think the notion… — Garth Fagan Copy Share Image
![“Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to be-though I'd never be a choreographer-some things might ought to be a dance [laughs]. I've found that exploring an idea in different ways, it gives you different opportunities.” quote by Andy Wilkinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/724/andy-wilkinson-41009_choreographers_some-things-need-to-be-a-song-some-thing_2684398.jpg)
