Astonishing Quote by Jamake Highwater

Going on stage and transcending the audience and becoming this otherworldly thing makes you a dancer. It's not so black and white.

— Misty Copeland

The idea that ballet is a white art is absurd and shocking, and it’s gone on for too long. Nothing would make me happier…

— Benjamin Millepied

The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can…

— Nat King Cole

Acting is different from dance. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form - like, this is how people have been doing…

— Elle Fanning

I'm the only person on Earth who's not afraid to admit that black people are better dancers than white people! I said it, I…

— Carlos Mencia

The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis…

— Doris Humphrey

Writing, not dancing, is the chosen form of expression of the white man.

— Gerald Jonas

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

— Martha Graham

The eternal and uneasy relationship between ballet and modern dance endures, but radically altered in tone and intensity.

— Robert Gottlieb

With dancing, so much is about sexuality and sensuality and without life experience it becomes much more of a performance, rather than a living,…

— Nigel Lythgoe

Well was it said by a man of sagacity that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

The thought of dancing in front of an audience terrifies me.

— Chrishell Stause