Twyla Tharp Quotes

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.

I had dance training from a very young age, 3 or 4... It taught me how to present myself, about preparation and working in an ensemble, and it's something that carries with me to this day.

Anybody cannot be a dancer. A dancer must have a certain posture, gestures, height, behaviour.

I had trained a bit in Bharatanatyam in the past but did not learn in depth. The same goes with jazz, western, and cinematic dance, as I was quite laid back with the training.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.

I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.

I wasn't a dancer learning to play Baby Houseman. I was Baby Houseman learning to play a dancer. I was someone who'd never done any Latin dance. I'd taken jazz classes and ballet growing up in New York, so I had dance in me, and I knew I loved it, but I'd never done a dance audition.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

Sayyeesha is a great dancer.

Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

My movement is usually about finding the balance between artistry, athleticism, and musicality. It always originates with a classical basis and expands outwards from that platform.

Jeremy Lamb is a great dancer.

I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.