Dance World Quotes

The world of dance is where I felt accepted as a human being.

We've had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day.

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

When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and things like that.

I want the ballet world to be given the respect that it deserves and to be seen by more people - for so many to experience the beauty that I've received from the ballet world.

I had some struggles to find my footing. I couldn't really find a place to appreciate me - I'm a little bit curvy for the dance world.

I'm not really a girly girl, so for the most part, I'm really into wearing baggy clothes. A little on the grungy side of things for the dance world. I'm not really into the tutus or the flower hair clips, either. As dancers, we're pretty much next to naked with each other all day, so you kind of get used to being not so clothed.

The classical ballet world is so exclusive and small, and a lot of people don't know about it.

I think that 'Flesh and Bone' represents the dance world very authentically. There's always this aspect of drama put on top of it, and it's showcasing the problems of the dance world, but I've had experiences in reality that were written into the show.

I went to school in New York and grew up in and out of New York. I love it, and I miss it, and every time I go back, I think, 'Why am I in Germany?' I do know that my career is really important to me, and in Germany, they've always been so much more supportive than my previous engagements in the dance world.

I think the dance world is really hard, we put a lot of pressure on ourselves to look a certain way, and so that was a battle that I had to figure out for myself.

I found I loved musicals as much or more than the pure dance world. I also think I became tired of dancing for other dancers.

Within the dancing world, where we come from, there's a lot of same-sex partners as in, young girls dancing because there's not always enough boys to dance.

There's a lot of material from my life in my books, but they're not really autobiographical, in the sense that they're not about my life. So, in 'A Feather on the Breath of God' I write about my parents, I write about this Russian immigrant, I write about the world of dance, but it isn't an autobiography; so much is left out.

There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I'm talking the upper echelon of dance studios.

The dance world was a big part of my growing up.

I couldn't name more than a couple of good drum'n'bass acts, and I have no idea what's big in the dance world right now.

Twyla Tharp set her sights on ballet, and ballet, hungry for major talent, succumbed.