Dancers Quotes

265 Dancers quotes by 191 unique authors

I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget… — Twyla Tharp
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut. — Twyla Tharp
I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days. — Twyla Tharp
My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood. — Twyla Tharp
Dancers are made, not born. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped… — Madonna Ciccone
I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring, and I was dancing with younger dancers. — Wendy Whelan
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing.… — Alice Walker
I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers. — Patricia Birch
Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced. — Robert Gottlieb
One of the eternal mysteries of ballet is how untalented choreographers find backers for their work, and then find good dancers to perform in it.… — Robert Gottlieb
You can usually tell how healthy a ballet company is by the degree of your interest in the middle ranks of the dancers - the… — Robert Gottlieb
Yes, bad or mediocre ballets can be useful to the dancers and temporarily fun for the audience, but in the long run, the lowering of… — Robert Gottlieb
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that.… — Jillian Rose Reed
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate… — Seamus Dever
As a dancer, you really try to stay true to whatever the choreographer/artistic director is giving you. So, now the shoe is on the other… — Judith Jamison
Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones. — Judith Jamison
My idea for the Jamison Project was rather like a pickup company. The idea was to give the dancers a taste of the menu. Today,… — Judith Jamison
I used to rely too much on arrangements and production, things like dancers and explosions. — Thalia
From 1961 to 1964, I was fortunate enough to work at a think tank in the Kenwood neighborhood of Chicago. As a writer and editor,… — Karen DeCrow
Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just… — Diplo
The great thing about being the son of Maya Angelou is that I had the good fortune to grow up around some of the greatest… — Guy Johnson
At intervals between the songs, more especially after the trances have begun, the dancers unclasp hands and sit down to smoke or talk for a… — James Mooney
Young dancers are training at a very vulnerable time in their lives, through adolescence, and while they are trying to work out who they are… — Deborah Bull
I sent 200, 300 of the clothes that I had made, and the dancers chose what they liked. — Issey Miyake

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