Camera Quote by Vera-Ellen

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a…

— Annie Leibovitz

Real dancers are the ones who can hear the music in their soul.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

America now has more and better dancers than they have ever had in the history of the country, but that won't account for the…

— Gene Kelly

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than…

— Nigel Lythgoe

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

— Agnes de Mille

We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

— Harold Nicholas

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

— Twyla Tharp

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

— Martha Graham

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

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated…

— Agnes de Mille

Every act I see, their whole act is choreographed. I'm sick of seeing these dancers. The only reason they have them is they don't…

— Ronnie Spector

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