Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

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 wanted to give people - which is fairly bizarre considering my whole life is contemporary dance really - I wanted to give people a really fulfilling sense that they had seen a white classical ballet - in a very pure form.

Some actors have an affinity for dance, and they should explore it, train in it, and get good.

We were tap-dancers but we put more style into it, more bodywork, instead of just footwork.

I had danced with Janet Jackson and P. Diddy so I had done a bunch of hip hop. Really and truly my roots are in modern and ballet but, professionally, that's not really out there any more, unfortunately, so these artists aren't really having a lot of ballet dancers behind them so I had to learn hip hop really quick.

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.

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.

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus.

If nobody comes to your shows, then it's modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don't know.

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

I started out as a dancer as a kid; I've been dancing since I was 4. So performing was always part of what I was.

Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.

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

What interested me was dance - the way that it was constructed with time-space constructions, and that it was abstract. I always thought: 'Why couldn't theater be that way? Or an opera?'

I was always the kid down the street who got the other kids to put on a show. But it was only when I was 19, and discovered ballet and contemporary dance, that I got interested in the fact that you could have a whole evening of dance - rather than just waiting for the dancers in a musical.

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

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.

I grew up learning ballet, and then I took up contemporary as I got older. I probably thought I was going to be a ballet dancer when I was younger, but at a certain age, I really was more interested in acting.

I was a Spanish dancer. I don't mean to put that down, because that was great, too, but nothing like the kind of dancing you had to do in 'West Side Story,' which was called jazz.

I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

I grew up as a dancer, and music and dance are so closely tied that in ballet class, you're listening to all this classical music, and in modern class, you're working with a live drummer. It was something that always made me feel really comfortable, and I've had a connection to since the beginning.

I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.