Audience Quote by Lucinda Childs

Dancers are stripped enough onstage. You don't have to know more about them than they've given you already.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever…

— Wayne McGregor

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

— Graeme Murphy

There's something refreshing about going to work with a different group of dancers. There are different ways of moving, different ways in which the…

— Justin Peck

So many dancers rely on some sort of magic happening on the stage. They never, for various reasons, work full out in rehearsal. That's…

— Benjamin Harkarvy

Dancers work and they work and they work, and they master their skills so far that improvisation just comes flowing out of them. Their…

— Pete Carroll

Dancers work and live from the inside. They drive themselves constantly producing a glow that lights not only themselves but audience after audience.

— Murray Louis

What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of…

— Misty Copeland

I guess it's hard work... whatever the decision is, how to show it to people that aren't necessarily dancers, how to get people to…

— Kyle Abraham

It is a temptation to exploit one's technique because an audience is easily reached this way, but they cannot be moved by technique alone…

— Alla Osipenko

I'm not a dancer, and it was very time-consuming. But I met great people, and it was flattering to be asked to be on.…

— Wendy Williams