Tom Weston-Jones Quotes

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

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

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.

Nobody is born a dancer.

If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

I am different because I have better schooling, better understanding of the line, gesture, how feet working, positions. They taught me modern things... and I wanted to give what I had: my schooling.

I don't have dance history or background.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

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.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

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

We have a lot of raw talent hidden in this country capable of taking on the world dance stage by storm.

Professional dancers are known for their barely-there costumes.

My mom put me into dance classes, found out that I can't dance to save my life.

I am thankful that 'Jhalak' made me a professional dancer now from just a 'barat' dancer.

I had learnt Kathak for six years from the age of eight and did a foundation course from Kathak Kendra in Delhi. I was not fond of classical dance, but today, I'm glad my mom made me do it.

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.

In the rest of Europe, dance is seen as a sport and in the UK it's seen as an art. And art isn't subsidised in the same way sport is.

If anyone is calling me to choreograph a dance, they know my style, and they know I am a taskmaster. They want to present themselves as a good dancer before their fans, and that is why they want me to choreograph.