Dancer Quotes - Page 13

• I grew up as a dancer. I did tap, classical ballet, all of that. I did Indian dancing, or Bharata Natyam, classic temple dancing from Madras, originally. My mother always had the great idea that I should learn it.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Mother, Ideas, Dancing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There's a moment when you say, "Okay, I'm not going to become a dancer. I'm not going to become a painter." So in a sense, I ended up writing about those big conflicts that I felt.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Writing, Conflict, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.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, Looks, Movement

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• I try to, at least once or twice a week, have someone over and model, usually a dancer friend or a poet or someone to come over and just stay still for me. Depending on how exhibitionist they are, it will determine the finished work. And I say, "You're the muse; you come up with it. I'll draw you however you want."

  Eric Drooker

  Trying, Want, Muse

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.

  Katrina Law

  Fighting, Athletic, Choreography

  Source: collider.com

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• I know hands down I would lose for sure, but I would love to just dance with Beyoncé. Really, that's what my dream is. She is such a good dancer and I know I would lose, like hands down I know I would lose, but I just want to be in her presence and see her dance up close. She is so good, I am literally obsessed with her and I think she's amazing.

  Alana Haim

  Dream, Thinking, Hands

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• I was never a dancer before 'Shake It Up'.

  Bella Thorne

  Shake It Up, Shakes

  "Meet the Cast of Shake It Up!". Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 4, 2011.

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• Making the ballet really taught me how to get things moving. Ballet dancers don't stand still.

  Guy Maddin

  Moving, Ballet, Taught

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• They call them performance artists, but they shouldn't be making an album. They should just be dancers. I don't know, I'm a musical snob. I feel like if you're going to record music and you're going to be a singer, you have to be able to sing.

  Warryn Campbell

  Artist, Musical, Albums

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• I initially told people I wanted to be a dancer and ultimately a "Rockette." I didn't really know what a musical theatre performer was other than the Shirley Temple type.

  Erica Schroeder

  People, Musical, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• My goal has always been to be a principal dancer with ABT.

  Misty Copeland

  Goal, Principal

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• My whole family is in the arts some way or the other. My father was a cellist in a symphony outside Chicago that was a side-job, he was a scientist. My mother was a dancer in New York. She was next-door neighbors with Dorothy Loudon and they moved to New York together. Mom was a dancer in New York for several years before she got married. My sister was a classical pianist. And my brother was a partier. So it all just seemed to work.

  Jason Graae

  Mom, Mother, Brother

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• Stand-up in general is the most raw form of entertainment. There is no pyrotechnics or back-up dancers, it's just live and die by your jokes, that's it.

  Dustin Diamond

  Entertainment, Form, Just Live

  "Interviews: Celebrities from 1980s to Beyond at 'The Hollywood Show'". Interview with Patrick McDonald, www.hollywoodchicago.com. September 6, 2012.

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• One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Fall, Needs, Rope

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2007). “Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo”, p.7, Wordsworth Editions

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• I always call Billy Elliot a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

  Lee Hall

  Drama, Kids, Sticks

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• I began dancing when I was 7 years old. I was told that I had the perfect ballet dancers body and had these crazy high arches in my feet that resulted in an amazing point. Ballet was very disciplined and, frankly, a little boring, so I eventually transitioned to gymnastics. I loved that, although I never reached a competitive level.

  Catherine Mary Stewart

  Crazy, Gymnastics, Years

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• When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

  Albert Murray

  Men, Medicine, Swings

  Albert Murray (1970). “The Omni-Americans: Some Alternatives to the Folklore of White Supremacy”

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• That kind of friendship doesn't just materialize at the end of the rainbow one morning in a soft-focus Hollywood haze. For it to last this long, and at such close quarters, some serious work had gone into it. Ask any ice-skater or ballet dancer or show jumper, anyone who lives by beautiful moving things: nothing takes as much work as effortlessness.

  Tana French

  Beautiful, Morning, Moving

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• Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Understanding, Process, Rendering

  Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Step Up doesn't have to hide anything. These are actually moves that people do. It just so happens that dancers are superheroes. People think there is a lot of wire work or camera tricks, but that's just not the case.

  Stephen Boss

  Moving, Thinking, People

  Source: collider.com

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• As dancers, especially for myself, personally, dance constitutes a lot of the conversation that I have. While I'm not a ridiculous wordsmith and I can't clearly verbalize the things that I'm feeling sometimes, I'd say that I can emote how I feel by dancing, 100% of the time, and fearlessly at that.

  Stephen Boss

  Dancing, Feelings, Ridiculous

  Source: collider.com

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• I've done everything. I've sung, done records, plays... It just so happened my first professional job was as a dancer. I've done the whole shebang, darling. But dancing was my first professional engagement in 1974. I got paid for it, so that was it, my vocation. But my parents weren't keen. They wanted me to be an accountant in Italy. Or a lawyer. They were furious. I had to run away. I had to leave the country.

  Bruno Tonioli

  Running, Country, Jobs

  "Interrogation: Strictly's Len and Bruno". Interview with Mirror, www.mirror.co.uk. April 6, 2008.

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• I love Abby Lee Miller. Honestly, if there's such a thing as past lives, I was definitely a dancer.

  Liana Liberato

  Past, Abby, Honestly

  Interview with Rachel Small, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• What keeps me motivated is that I'm going to do a bunch of projects with dancers, and the people who compel me and make me love dance again are the ones I want to hire because they'll do that for others who are watching the thing. So yeah, it is difficult to crush dream sometimes, but they're all professional and they know what the deal is.

  Jon M. Chu

  Crush, Dream, People

  Source: collider.com

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• What makes a great dancer is not technique. What makes a great dancer is passion.

  Martha Graham

  Passion, Technique

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