Jeremy Abbott Quotes

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

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.

I'm not a very good dancer. My feet don't point far enough; my extension is embarrassing. Dance, for me, has been hard because it's a strive for perfection.

A lot of heroines ask me to make the dance steps easier.

Dancers are always striving for perfection. A great dancer never achieves it: you always want to do another turn, a higher jumpa, more difficult acrobatic jump.

I also think that I had great mechanics.

Dancing is kind of my thing.

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

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

No talent lies in my dancing.

I'm a hell of a bloody good dancer.

I love to dance. I've been told I'm actually really good.

For me, the intellect is always the guide but not the goal of the performance. Three things have to be coordinated, and not one must stick out. Not too much intellect because it can become scholastic. Not too much heart because it can become schmaltz. Not too much technique because you become a mechanic.

It's actually a privilege to actually learn how to really dance.

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage.

Timing has a lot to with art.

Dance must have a precision without fault.

Ballet is good, because it makes you stand up tall.

I record cello Etudes that are fewer than four minutes long and post them on YouTube. How can one execute fully-formed ideas with utmost perfection, yet stay free enough to allow improvisatory nuance? This has immediate application in almost every area of life, but especially in performance.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

I was not awesome at dancing. For a ballerina, I probably started too late. Plus I enjoyed entertaining people too much.

I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.

Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.