Dance Techniques Quotes

Dance has been a driving force in my life for 25 years. From music videos and hip hop, to jazz and musical theater, to ballet and classic modern dance, I have had extensive exposure to a variety of techniques that inspire my own electric style.

There are likewise three kinds of dancers: first, those who consider dancing as a sort of gymnastic drill, made up of impersonal and graceful arabesques; second, those who, by concentrating their minds, lead the body into the rhythm of a desired emotion, expressing a remembered feeling or experience. And finally, there are those who convert the body into a luminous fluidity, surrendering it to the inspiration of the soul.

The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.

Actually I'm more passionate about dancing than I am about singing.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

I like the way he danced. And then I like the way we danced together.

If I had to choose, it would be dancing. Dancing is my first passion and it's gotten me where I am today.

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

Most of the people who came for dancing lessons had Rumba ambitions and minuet bodies

Dance was one of the things that led me to acting even though I say I fell in love with acting fairly early on and its true but around 16 and 17 I got heavily into dance but I think I just came into it too late and I was never going to be really great at it so I let it go and the dance led to more acting classes.

I enjoy the freedom of modern dance as well as the constraints of classical dance.

My mother took me to every kind of dance instructor.

I'm not much of a dancer.

Could you do such things when you were a dancer?' Tara asks her, as Tsukiko pulls a leg up impossibly far over her head. 'I would have had a much busier social calendar if I could,' Mme. Padva replies with a shake of her head.

I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.

Dancing is not one of my talents. But when you've had a few drinks anyone is a good dancer, right?

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America.

I dance with the dancers.

Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

I'm not a trained dancer in the slightest.

Fred Astaire’s got nothing on me.

A good education consists in knowing how to sing and dance well.

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases