Choreographers Quotes - Page 4

• The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

  Debbie Reynolds

  New York, Stars, Cities

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.

  Jackie Chan

  Stress, Want, Directors

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• The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.

  Jillian Hervey

  People, Dancer, Inspired

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?

  Jackie Chan

  Art, Technology, Two

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• As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."

  Joan Tewkesbury

  Jobs, Wall, Dancer

  Interview with Meredith Danluck, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

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• You are not a female or a male - you are a dancer. And when I started going into choreography I became part of a team of people making movies. I wasn't a woman choreographer. I was a choreographer.

  Anne Fletcher

  Team, People, Dancer

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did "Get the Funk Out".

  Adam Shankman

  Video, Funk, Really Weird

  Source: collider.com

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• I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability to figure out people's rhythms. It all starts from the script.

  Sandra Bullock

  Mean, People, Needs

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• Mia Michaels is to my mind one of the most interesting choreographers alive right now and my colleague and my friend from So You Think (You Can Dance).

  Adam Shankman

  Thinking, Interesting, Mind

  Source: collider.com

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• Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.

  Wayne McGregor

  Artist, World, Fit

  "Royal Ballet Live: Wayne McGregor on dance, the White Stripes and the web". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.

  Sergei Polunin

  Stars, Artist, Dancer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.

  Cholly Atkins

  Couple, Artist, Order

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• We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.

  PSY

  Moving, Night, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.

  Mark Morris

  People, Reason

  "Portrait of the artist: Mark Morris, choreographer". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2009.

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• Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.

  Mark Morris

  Giving, Advice, Want

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• A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.

  Laurieann Gibson

  Ideas, Creative, Directors

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• Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality.

  Jennifer Dunning

  Strong, New York, Roots

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• Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

  Jack Anderson

  Dance, Art, Night

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• The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!

  Gerald Arpino

  Inspirational, Dance, Fall

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• Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

  Rihanna

  Growing Up, Dancing, Perfect

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• I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

  Donald O'Connor

  Remember, I Can

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• Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.

  Ishmael Reed

  Dog, New Orleans, Popcorn

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• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

  Angel Corella

  Ideas, Ballet, Mind

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• All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Music, Dance, Drama

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