Vera Wang Quotes

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics.

When I'm on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It's a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.

I realized that 'performing' was what I wanted to do when I did my first professional gig as a dancer with my company 'Synergy' in Canada. I was overwhelmed with how it felt to perform in front of an audience.

I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?

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.

You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

What is exciting is taking back the excitement of being able to debut something to an audience in exactly the way you want to.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

For me, the great joy is to watch an audience watching what I've made. To hear not a peep from the audience at the right moment, and then to hear the laughs and the cheers.

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

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.

There's nothing like walking out and watching the people get turned on. Nothing in the world could replace it.

I can't act without music very well.

Dancing is my passion. I started as a dancer.

How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?

I would find the idea of compiling a setlist that doesn't wildly excite me to be too restricting.

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about to happen is a great thing.

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

My grandma was a ballerina.

I love getting cheers. I love giving scares. Anything that really works with the audience makes me happy.