Ann Reinking Quotes

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

I started with ballet and then my cousin Sarah introduced me to her tap teachers.

I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.

I am not a dancer and for me, to learn the art is fun. It gives you the confidence that you can dance.

My dance background helped me tremendously. Dancing is like second nature to me.

I tap dance.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

I'm a singer who moves like a dancer.

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

I used to dance when I was younger - ballet and modern dance.

They do say, the smaller the feet, the better the dancer.

I have ballet class every other day for two hours. And for 'Six Feet Under', last week there was a sequence where I had to do a whole choreographed dance number, so I had four hours of dance practice every day.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

Dancing is kind of my thing.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

I'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

I've always loved dancing. As soon as there is good music, I've got to get up and dance. I was passionate about ballet as a little girl.

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

I grew up in dance class, so I was looking in mirrors all day.