Urmila Matondkar Quotes

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

I have brought you to the ring, now dance if you can.

I love to dance. I've been told I'm actually really good.

As far as dancing was concerned, I always wanted to do it. To actually be performing was thrilling for me.

Every great dancer has so much to offer.

When I am not auditioning or meeting people, I teach myself dance.

One of the things that made Bob so unique and wonderful is that he had a genuine style, like Balanchine, like de Mille.

I've always been a dancer, and I will always be a dancer.

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

Soledad Barrio is clearly a master - of thrilling steps and passionate movement. She stalks, she circles, she struts, she snaps her head - her feet drill the stage.

In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

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

I think when dance is mediocre, it's painful. But when dance is really impressive, it destroys.

Dance is a very disciplining career or hobby. I was disciplined at an early age.

I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

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.