Patricia Birch Quotes

Nobody is born a dancer.

I started doing theater at the age of six. I also took tap and jazz lessons. I refused to take ballet, which is one of my biggest regrets to this day.

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

Obviously I always wanted to do a contemporary piece.

'So You Think You Can Dance' comes on as a high-minded leap up the evolutionary ladder from other reality shows - on this one, you're supposed to learn something, and the guest judges are fellow dance professionals rather than actual celebrities.

I wanted to do dance with the same seriousness as art was done and acknowledged, not with the entertainment factor that is always connected to theater and film.

I'm the first one out on the dance floor. In college I had to take jazz, ballet and tap dancing, but, before that, it was just social.

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 was in a competing company and have been dancing since I was four - ballet, tap, jazz, hip hop - so it's a huge part of my life and my music.

I'm very smart when it comes to choosing dancers and trying to show the world that there's a whole lot of dancing going on.

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 go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject.

Yes, anybody can dance. Whether it is right or wrong, that doesn't matter.

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

Pure dance form is not dying.

Dance+ is a platform for Indian talent that puts a spotlight on pure, superlative, unique dancing.

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.

I never danced growing up.

I'm glad that nowadays people are aware of varied dance genres, thanks to reality TV dance shows.

My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.

If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.

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.

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 don't have dance history or background.