Tino Sehgal Quotes

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.

I don't have dance history or background.

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

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

You know I very much respect Yvonne Rainer, she is very important - in American dance, the entire development of modern dance, and creating a wonderful physical language.

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 found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

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

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

Pure dance form is not dying.

I never danced growing up.

I grew up going to see my sister dance, both at the ballet and later as a modern dancer, and have always been a big fan of the ballet. So I have had a long relationship with dance.

Nobody is born a dancer.

I've been doing African dance all my life.

There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong.

'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.

Choreographers, historically, are born, not made - their talents drive them to it.

A good dancer is an educated one, so don't abandon school.

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 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.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

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

There's nobody knows more about dancing and choreography than Arlene Phillips, ever.

To me, dance and ballet are not so accessible.

The Royal Academy of Dance is an institution that trains to a very high standard.