Natalia Makarova Quotes

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

I started dancing when I was four years old and then was in class until I was about 20 years old or so, and then primarily was dancing just in shows that I was doing, but not really studying and training.

I'm a fantastic dancer!

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

I started dancing when I was 5 years old. Ballet. Flamenco.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

I taught and studied dance in college, and for over a decade, I thought that would be my career: tap dancer, ballet dancer, modern dancer. I still find myself doing some tumbling or interpretive dancing in the grocery store every now and then.

When I am not auditioning or meeting people, I teach myself dance.

I am a trained classical dancer.

I've never looked at what I do as show business, I guess, because of my connection to the art and how I was introduced to the dance.

I grew up always wanting to be a dancer, and when I went to New York, I fell in love with the idea of performing in all ways. I saw myself traveling with a company or making my own work and being a little weird. I wasn't thinking about the business side of anything; I just knew that I loved dancing.

I studied dance for about 15 years, various disciplines, with classical ballet as my primary.

I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.

I took tap classes growing up.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

I find the songs and dances in Hindi films fascinating, and I know I will do justice to them, as I am a trained 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.

Oh, I am not naturally gifted in dancing in any way! Stupidly, I didn't go to those classes in drama school. I was like, 'I don't need that; I'll never be dancing in anything.'

As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.