Movement Coordination Quotes

I've been a Gunner for life. They play similar football to Barcelona. So ball movement and player movement is important to me in basketball; I think I picked it up from watching those guys.

The Alexander Technique has helped me to undo knots, unblock energy and deal with almost paralysing stage fright

I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body.

The Alexander Technique gives us all things we have been looking for in a system of physical education: relief from strain due to maladjustment, and constant improvement in physical and mental health. We cannot ask for more from any system; nor, if we seriously desire to alter human beings in a desirable direction, can we ask for any less.

I am not a natural dancer.

Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do something large against this - and this set up a kind of opposition.

I'm being trained to shake the bon-bon appropriately.

I am not a very good dancer.

I'm a lousy dancer.

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

When I'm doing sports, I always think of how it's related to singing, and when I watch tennis, I learn a lot for my singing: how the players are focused, how they use their technique, and, in the case of Roger Federer, how effortless it is and how beautiful it is to watch - like bel canto, in a way. That's how singing should be.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

If you're sounding right, you're probably walking right, and vice versa. If you get the footwork right - if you get even one line right in a rehearsal, the director will say, do you know when you said that, it was exactly the character. You were - really landed on it.

I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.

I always love being able to dance with athletes because they just know how to be coached.

I was nervous about doing 'Scottsboro Boys' because I'm not a trained dancer, and there is a lot of very athletic dancing involved.

I'm a singer who moves well.

You need someone to tell you how to do things like hitting your marks, or driving a car so it looks right or getting out of a car so it doesn't take a million years of screen time.

My acting style and my physicality lends itself to doing things like putting a scene together for a dancing competition.

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

When we're playing, I really shape my body to receive the ball - even before it gets to me.

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

I tried to dance in my earlier films, but it was more like struggling to stay afloat once you are thrown into the water.

Being a dancer is my metaphor for life because you have to know your body. Being a dancer and paying attention to fitness is all about moving in balance.

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.