Dance Quote by Harold Nicholas

Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's…

— Nigel Lythgoe

There are more real dancers now. It used to be that they would dub in the taps and obscure the lack of technique with…

— Vera-Ellen

Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.

— Twyla Tharp

I`m basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what`s known…

— Donald O'Connor

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

— Jamie Bell

I had no idea what I was walking into, and the years and years of hard work it would take. I felt like an…

— Misty Copeland

Since a lot of dance movements begin and end with the legs, there is a lot of attention drawn to them. The more sculpted…

— Cheryl Burke

Dancers have more bones than most people and on the days when you work hard you are sure that you have somehow accumulated more…

— Martha Graham

Dancers today can do anything; the technique is phenomenal. The passion and the meaning to their movement can be another thing.

— Martha Graham

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

I wonder if tap dancers walk into a room, look at a floor and think, 'I'd so tap that.'

— Anonymous

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

— Agnes de Mille