Choreography Quotes - Page 5

• One thing about skating that I don't think people focus on enough is the music factor. The music is a huge component of figure skating. It can dictate not only the choreography but the emotion. If it's not the right music it can ruin a performance.

  Vera Wang

  Thinking, People, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• I don't want people to think about one common thing. Coda is non-discursive, just like choreography for the stage. So each audience member's thoughts about it, or better yet, their feelings, will be different. Moreover, images contain so much information that one can see things that the next person won't notice. As a result, people will surely think about Coda in dissimilar ways.

  Martine Epoque

  Thinking, People, Feelings

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• One time, the homie Venus[-X] read me; we were on the phone and she was like, "Girl, you keep wearing jeans and t-shirts at your shows, but the music doesn't give that." I was like, "You're right, I need to be the person that I am at school, making dance and choreography. I should think about the whole performance." That's when I put the 1 in my name and started dressing for the occasion.

  Le1f

  Girl, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.

  George Balanchine

  Believe, Ballet, Movement

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• When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions.

  Fred Astaire

  Believe, Mind, Criticism

  "Steps in Time" by Fred Astaire, (p. 6), 1959.

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• I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.

  Yuen Woo-ping

  Fighting, Film, Retired

  Source: collider.com

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• When preparing for the fight choreography, the first thing I have to think about is what fits in the script. Whatever goes along with the story line and the character's personality; they have to be matched.

  Yuen Woo-ping

  Character, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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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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• 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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• I am absolutely desperate to do an action movie. And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I actually think I'm good at it. I did it all. I was really into the routines and the choreography. I used to dance when I was younger, and so I think that came in handy.

  Lily James

  Thinking, Blow, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not going to say it's easy, but I do have an ease with picking up fight choreography because of my dance training.

  Katrina Law

  Fighting, Training, Ease

  Source: collider.com

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• I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography.

  Sandra Bullock

  Moving, Fighting, Body

  "Sandra Bullock, Boxed In On The Set Of 'Gravity'". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. October 4, 2013.

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• Sometimes I go and I'll look at people's comments and then responses, covers, choreography and fan videos and after a couple hours it's like, uhhh this is a little like...I'm like don't indulge in right now.

  Jhene Aiko

  Couple, Indulge In, People

  Source: earstyle.net

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• The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.

  DJ Spooky

  Creating, Environmental, Chemicals

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• If I hear an amazing piece of music, I can't help but think of ideas, choreography, and everything that comes along with it.

  Witney Carson

  Thinking, Ideas, Pieces

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• Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.

  Hakim Bey

  Clouds, Order, Desire

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.3, Autonomedia

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• We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

  Ronnie Spector

  Sweet, Home, Spanish Harlem

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

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• And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.

  Richard Ouzounian

  Toronto, Invention, Knows

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• Even if you perform with a great choreography, or a part of a great group, I believe you can’t imitate people’s aura.

  Minzy

  Believe, People, Groups

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• No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day.

  Ronnie Spector

  Identity, Back In The Day

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

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• It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it. When will I be used to it? In 10 years? In 20 years?

  Kim Hyo-yeon

  Years, Snsd, Four

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• I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.

  Jeremy Piven

  Father, Fighting, Play

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