Ballet Quote by David Lyons

I wanted to train jiu-jitsu instead of capoeira because the mat was soft. It was better than training capoeira on the hard floor. I…

— Jose Aldo

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

— David Lyons

To me, boxing is like ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.

— Anonymous

Fight choreography has far more in common with dance choreography than it does with actual martial arts. You learn martial arts techniques, but those…

— David Leitch

I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.

— Katrina Law

Fight scenes are really more like dances than they are fights, because you're depending on your partner to do the right move at the…

— James Franco

Fighting is art and there is nothing more beautiful than the painted canvas of just totally kicking someone's ass.

— Frank Shamrock

I was a professional fighter for a while, and I trained in martial arts for seven years, so I think that kind of helped…

— Ryan Guzman

Fight scenes are like learning a dance. You learn it move by move, and then you put it all together and it looks awesome…

— Rachel Nichols

I knew there were going to be a lot of fighting scenes, and I'm not a very sporty person, I have a dancing background,…

— Sasha Luss

I think of it more as a performance. I always grew up playing sports, so I thought of it just as another sport. Fighting…

— Sean O'Malley

Although most informed balletomanes would place artistry above technique, artistry without a strong technique is a flaccid, bloodless thing indeed, whereas technique without much…

— John Simon