Carla Korbes Quotes

I am thankful to whatever I have got in my life, but one thing which is always at the back of my mind is my dance academy. I would love to see my dance academy growing.

They improve greatly, and sometimes I go and see the performances they do and I am consciously aware that there isn't enough work for the good dancers.

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

A lot of professional dancers become professional when they turn 15 or 16 years old, when they're still children. So you've trained every single waking moment up until that point for a career that could maybe only last 10 years, maybe longer if your body holds up, if your injuries are kept at bay.

I was really creative. I started to dance very young. I loved to dance. I begged my mother to put me into dance classes, and finally, in third grade, she did. Tap and jazz, but not ballet.

My only drive was to be the best dancer in the world, but I never won the world championship.

I love dancing and practiced ballet for ten years until I realized I wouldn't make it professionally - then I started taking salsa classes. I learned to dance samba in Rio and Salvador when I lived in Brazil.

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.

The best thing you can say about Hubbard Street is that if you were a dancer, this is a company you'd fight to get into.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

I've studied dance since I was very young, and I continue to study ballet.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

My mom was a dance teacher, so she put me in dance school when I was a kid. I did everything. I used to take ballet.

A friend of my mother's, Irene Lopez, was a Spanish dancer. She saw me bopping around the room and said to my mother, 'Rosita might have talent. Can I take her to my dance teacher?' There was no thought of a career at that time, but I knew I loved the attention, and that's so much a part of being a performer.

We didn't have any real proper school. We did not have a place to go to learn to dance and the joy of dancing.

I decided to go to dance school at 22, which is late for a dancer.

I was very serious about ballet until the age of 12, at which point my body changed, and it wasn't quite right.

My mother was very keen I learn dance and I learnt so many forms.

In the rest of Europe, dance is seen as a sport and in the UK it's seen as an art. And art isn't subsidised in the same way sport is.

I've been in continuing education programs since taking my dance master's exam at age 21.

Both my brother and mother are actors and dancers. Of course my mom, who is a Kathak exponent, is the most established dancer amongst the three of us.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you're looking for a pediatrician.

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

I've been dancing for 20 years. I just kept doing the same job that I've always done.