Cressida Bonas Quotes

I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

I knew I wanted to be the Steven Spielberg of dance.

What guarantees - or at least semi-guarantees - good ballets is good choreographers, and they are thin on the ground.

I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.

I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater.

Has there ever been a dance career with more ups and downs than Twyla Tharp's? Or with more varied ambitions? Or larger ambition?

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.

I think I just have this need to be a storyteller. That's why I wasn't a great dancer - I couldn't articulate a story. I was a better choreographer. I have the need to to just express myself in that way. I can't explain it.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.

I wanted to do new things with dance, adapt it to the motion picture medium.

If I'm at a party, I can put on some crazy dance moves. However, it's not synchronized, beautiful or choreographed like a ballet dancer. I'd love to be graceful like that.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

There are a lot of artists that I love, and I think they're really talented, and they're good dancers as well. I've always wished that I could combine that.

Raimund Hoghe is a little man with a spinal deformity who was once Pina Bausch's dramaturge.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.

Peaky' has attracted a lot of attention from different disciplines in the arts. It was originally going to be a ballet, which is Ballet Rambert, and there is also a lot of music artists who offer their music to the show to be used on the soundtrack.

I will never leave choreography and will keep doing songs, too.