Lincoln Kirstein Quotes

Ballet is a riddle of means and ends.

I had danced when I was younger, until I was about 12, and I always idealized it, as most young girls do, as the most beautiful art. It's an expression without words.

In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

I have a penchant for playing God's clowns. Actually, I played Nijinsky once, and he used to call himself God's clown.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

I competitively ice skate, and I also dance, and I do a lot of theater, which also involves a lot, a lot of physicality, because you have to do a lot of fast changes.

All theater is dance.

Dance is in my background.

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

As a child, I would say that I wanted to become a dancer to honour music. For me, dancing is the physical translation of the audio recording.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

Sylvie Guillem is the best dancer in the world.

I love dance - trying to express myself wordlessly.

Writing for dance was a wonderfully freeing experience.

I love the physical movement and beauty of dance.