Choreography Quotes - Page 4

• Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was 1957, before civil rights. He showed me how to take her [holding her delicately by the wrist]. He said, ‘put your hand on top.’ The skin colors were part of the choreography. He saw what was going to happen in the world and put it on stage.

  Arthur Mitchell

  Men, Rights, Skin Color

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• Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that; you're dancing spirit.

  Judith Jamison

  Inspirational, Dance, Dancing

  Judith Jamison (1993). “Dancing Spirit: An Autobiography”, Doubleday Books

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• Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.

  Frank Zappa

  Music, Sports, Clouds

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• Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

  Laini Taylor

  Eye, Darkness Within, Light

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• I wanted to show that 'I'm sexy'. I wanted to do things that other male solo artists hadn't done before, such as choreography that has a tempting allure.

  Seungri

  Sexy, Artist, Males

  Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography of the biosphere, and by doing so, dramatically increases productivity without compromising the ecological relationships that govern the planet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Technology, Humanity, Way

  Jeremy Rifkin (2014). “The Zero Marginal Cost Society: The Internet of Things, the Collaborative Commons, and the Eclipse of Capitalism”, p.19, Palgrave Macmillan

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• I did enjoy singing the song, called "The Count", which is Count Olaf's big song that he sings to the kids when they first arrive with his henchpeople. He wrote it himself, and he thinks he's really, really talented, and it's a terrible song. So we had to learn intentionally bad choreography... We did these almost Lady Gaga-ish kind of movements, which were just awful, but that made me laugh

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Song, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I think what we want to do is - when we choreograph, when we design choreography, we try to take it from a character standpoint first. Obviously you write a script and it's like, a Jason Bourne or a John Wick or something like that, you don't start choreographing double twisting wire moves and backflips, or doing the splits. You try to keep it so it fits the character, or the tone of the film.

  Chad Stahelski

  Moving, Character, Writing

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.

  Ronnie Spector

  Sweet, Rocks, Dancer

  "Ronnie's spectre" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• They don't mind getting punched in the face and, more importantly, they don't mind punching other people in the face. I'm just about the movies; I enjoy the dexterity of actors in action movies and the choreography side of things. You've just got to be a different person to be a professional fighter. I train with professional fighters so I know what it takes. It's a very difficult profession, probably harder then the acting profession.

  Scott Adkins

  People, Mind, Acting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Bees, Instruments

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2011.

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• I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

  Mae Jemison

  Dancing, Dancer, Periods

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• The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography.

  Pauline Kael

  Art, Fighting, Lightning

  Pauline Kael (2011). “5001 Nights at the Movies”, p.221, Macmillan

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• Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.

  Tami Stronach

  Emotional, Ideas, Intellectual

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• My monumental netted sculptural environments move through time, animated by an ever-changing 'wind choreography,' making invisible air currents suddenly visible to the human eye. I make living, breathing pieces that respond to the forces of nature - wind, light, water.

  Janet Echelman

  Moving, Eye, Light

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• You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.

  Allan Sherman

  May, Wonder, Wells

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.

  Beatrice Schenk de Regniers

  Running, Book, Writing

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• When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.

  Rob Marshall

  Mean, Ideas, Pieces

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• Dance... enjoy each step along the way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Karma, Dance, Dancing

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• I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.

  Tom Waits

  Writing, Air, Drawing

  Interview with Amanda Petrusich, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2006.

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• The media was, 'Oh my God, you're gay,' and I'm like yes -- I've been out my whole life to my family and friends. Everyone in the skating community knew. But just because I won the national title, it's like, 'Oh, my God, you're gay.' The judges would say, 'You have to tone down your costumes, your choreography,' and I'm like, 'No . . .' I wanted to skate for the audiences, not for the judges.

  Rudy Galindo

  Gay, Media, Judging

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• speaking with, uh, about the vocal choreography, one of the first groups that I worked with was a group called the Cadillacs, which was uh, an exceptionally talented group. They all moved well and they sort of established Cholly Atkins's style. In other words they basically put me on the map, and everybody would look at them and see their choreography and they wanted to know who did it, so they would tell them.

  Cholly Atkins

  Style, Groups, Looks

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• I am interested in the complicated choreography of close relationships.

  Torill Kove

  Complicated, Close Relationship

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• In vocal choreography you had to give a lot of consideration to the fact that you were working with singers and not dancers. But you had to make singers look like they were dancers, and to make the movements as natural as possible, and there to be an association with the movement, uh, somewhat to what the lyric was saying.

  Cholly Atkins

  Giving, Dancer, Looks

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• I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.

  Ariana Grande

  Eight, Challenges, Singing

  "Interview: 2012 must-know - Ariana Grande". Interview with Shahlin Graves, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. February 25,2012.

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