Judith Jamison Quotes

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.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

Acting is my number one, but dancing will always be a part of who I am and in my heart. I love doing stunts when they are a part of my acting.

Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

I like to choreograph and create and design the costumes and do it all and then step back and watch it and then move on to the next project.

Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance.

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

I do everything I know how in a dance.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

When you work on a graphic novel or a film with people you've been together through a lot and you've exposed your secrets and weaker sides to each other.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn't know what it looked like. I didn't want to see it... I had to start in the dark.

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

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance - my true being is to be a dancer.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

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 look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

I loved dance.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

Adam Shankman has got such love and passion for dance.

Once, Pina Bausch was about something, however disagreeable.