Africa Quote by Oti Mabuse

I started competing internationally when I was still in school. Every summer I would travel abroad to England because England was the place to…

— Cheryl Burke

I've been doing African dance all my life.

— Naima Adedapo

I danced from the age of three, so I was always going to do something performance-related. I got into the Television Workshop drama group…

— Vicky McClure

My earliest memory of dancing is that I won a dance contest in Jamaica when I was 6.

— NLE Choppa

I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

— Manu Bennett

I grew up as a competitive dancer.

— Ariana DeBose

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

— Tatiana Maslany

I'm a 15-time national champion, so for me I had a long, competitive dancing career before joining 'Dancing With the Stars.'

— Valentin Chmerkovskiy

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and…

— Sutton Foster

I used to do a lot of dancing when I was younger.

— Nicola Roberts

My dancing is definitely influenced by African house parties that loosen me up over the years when I was eight years old. Just trying…

— Bree Runway

From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.

— Madelaine Petsch