Ann Reinking 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.

I've always been a dancer, and I will always be a dancer.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

I'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

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

Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.

When I was 8, I began to study ballet. In seventh grade, my mother took me into New York to study at the School of American Ballet. I loved ballet - its precision, the escape from uncertainty, and the music.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

I am a dancer at heart.

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

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

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

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

I loved dance.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

Ballet really taught me so much about the power of movement.

I've been dancing for 10 years.

Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

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.

Dancing was my sport when I was younger. So I chose that over everything. And then, I just had to keep going because it became a competitive thing. But I'm not trying to impress anyone anymore. Dancing is more like my art, now.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.