Choreographed Movement Quotes

An artistic standpoint - I've watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find meaning in their movement.

I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.

Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.

People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

To me, the appeal of opera lies in the fact that a myriad of singers and instruments, each possessed of different qualities of voice and sound, against the backdrop of a grand stage and beautiful costumes, come together in one complete and impressive drama.

I love seeing New York City Ballet from the fourth ring, just seeing the architecture of how these bodies move from above.

If I am expected to play a dancer, I will learn dancing but won't do the random, meaningless dancing.

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

Baseball is an art! A drama! A ballet without music! Let us give it a Greek chorus!

One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus.

Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.