Saara Aalto Quotes

I have never been a good dancer but am very passionate about it.

As long as there are dancers around who love to dance, there will be an Alvin Ailey American Dance Company. We miss him so much, but he's alive as soon as you see a dancer hit the stage.

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

The youth coming up is interested in dance now, and they're coming to the shows. That's a blessing for those of us who create.

I never danced growing up.

Nobody is born a dancer.

We've had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day.

I've always danced. I've always been around it.

All I do is watch dance videos. I love Ricky Ubeda, who is a contemporary dancer, and I also love Madison Cubbage. They inspire me to work harder every day.

The 'Podunk Times' is not going to have a good dance critic, I absolutely promise you that. There's just not enough dance there.

I don't like the Samba; it's nonsense. With a lot of these Latin dances I can't really understand what they're all about. I like the Rumba and the Paso Doble but the others I could take or leave.

I lived and breathed dancing. It was my everything.

However, the moral center of New York City, I believe, is the New York City Ballet.

I'm not interested in seeing dance die. It's not to my advantage. Nor is it to our culture's advantage or anybody else's.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

Yes, anybody can dance. Whether it is right or wrong, that doesn't matter.

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

I make dance music because I love to dance. But I want to think at the same time.

My whole family is involved in the arts - my sister is a professional Bharatnatyam dancer, and my dad helps me out on the music business end.

I say over and over again that I am just standing on the shoulders of so many who have set this path for me, and they may not be seen or recognized or have been given an opportunity to have a voice, but I'm here representing all of those dancers. Dance Theatre of Harlem Virginia Johnson, Tai Jimenez, Lauren Anderson.

I was an international krumper at one time. I can't talk about it, really, because when you've lived for krump like I have, when you get a bit older and you move away from it, it's hard.