Patricia Birch Quotes

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

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 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.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs, too.

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

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 was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

My first professional relationship, I danced with the Parsons Dance Company, and David Parsons, my former boss, allowed me to choreograph on the company.

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

I started dancing ballet when I was very young, so my background really is dance. But I remember loving the feeling of being on a stage and having a love for performing from a young age.

I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.

I really developed an early love for ballet. Like most dancers, I am still 'first' a dancer. I'm very proud of it. Once you are a dancer, the physicality never leaves you, nor does the strength. Hopefully, it keeps you like an athlete.

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

I worked as a belly dancer at a Greek restaurant senior year in high school.

As much as I love to travel and be on stage and perform, I knew at a very young age that I wanted to be a choreographer and a director.

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'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

Martin Joyce is a beautiful dancer and an amazing choreographer. He choreographed the Mulberry dance film I was in, 'From London with Love.' A truly talented man.

I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you have your paint, and you have canvas, and you just go at it. I'm working with these living, breathing, functioning human beings, and they have their own thoughts and ideas about what works well movement-wise.

I am not a dancer. In fact, I have no formal training in dance.

I used to teach dance lessons.