Jenna Dewan Quotes

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

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

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

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

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.

As I got older, I started to do it more and more, and I wanted to learn all of the different types. I grew up doing modern, so I wanted to learn ballet, tap, jazz, and African - just everything.

I have worked with several dance companies.

My Mom is a ballet director, so I had this idea in me that classical training is the best foundation for anything you do, so I wanted to get a classical background and voice.

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

I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.

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

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

I didn't grow up on dance class. I was always natural. I've been in the industry since I was eight and I've always had a choreographer since then. But I never really took ballet or anything like that.

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

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 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 started dancing when I was about four, and my mother put me into dancing school, and I did every type of dance there is.

I am a professional dancer, so picking up dance steps was like brushing my teeth.

I was a dancer, so it was easy for me to dance in films. I had studied Kathak, Bharatnatyam, Kuchipudi, Odisi and Kathakali much before I even thought of becoming an actor.

I am learning how to dance hip-hop. I'm a good dancer when I dance salsa.

I've always been interested in dance and want to be a trained contemporary dancer.

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 had trained a bit in Bharatanatyam in the past but did not learn in depth. The same goes with jazz, western, and cinematic dance, as I was quite laid back with the training.