Twyla Tharp Quotes

I trained in every form of dance - started as a tap dancer when I was a kid, then contemporary, ballet, ballroom, everything. Russian, Swedish.

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

I think I tended toward the Russian training because my first teacher taught a version of Vaganova, and it was drilled into me that that was the best system, and also at the time there were a lot of great Russian stars.

Pure dance form is not dying.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.

Yeah, I grew up doing ballet and jazz and tap, but I stopped at the age of 25, and I've never stepped foot in a ballroom.

The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.

Nobody is born a dancer.

I don't have dance history or background.

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

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

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

I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children.

I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever.

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.

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

I love ballet, and it's a little boring for me to go to the gym because I'm used to the dancing discipline - it's really hard but much more fun.

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.

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

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

I decided to go to dance school at 22, which is late for a dancer.

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.