Andra Day Quotes

You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

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

There's a whole new generation who know about tap dancing thanks to 'Happy Feet.'

My choreography is very classically based.

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance.

We put too much on contemporary dancers. A lot of them cannot change styles; a lot of them can't do anything else other than run around the stage reaching and stretching in anguish to somebody off camera that I never understand who it is. But it's the teenage angst they have to live with.

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

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.

I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

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

Dancers carry themselves in completely different ways to how we do in our everyday lives. They are very free with their bodies which I'm not used too.

You know, ballet might be too formal of a title for the type of dance I do, but I love to dance.

Ballet is like any other art form in that we all start out knowing nothing about it.

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 can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.

I'm a fantastic dancer!

Dancing is a tough career, but I'm glad I spent it at the Royal Ballet.

Dance is in the air, pirouettes, very difficult. Mime is on the floor, like Spanish dancing perhaps, and very often in slow motion.

I had classical training at London's Royal Ballet School, and my first job was with the Semperoper Dresden ballet company in Germany.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.