Justin Peck Quotes

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

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

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.

I very much like dance and dancers.

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

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.

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

I tap dance.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

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

I love working with Alicia Keys, because it's not just the ability to do the dance to me; I think it's the ability to interpret it that excites me the most.

Dance has always been my passion, and I love it.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.

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

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.

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

Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.

As ballerinas, we don't use our voices. Our voice is the body and the movement quality.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.