Dance Quotes
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I don't really dance. I don't drink or smoke. Being at parties is very awkward.
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I can't just make a song people can dance in a club to... it still has to be real.
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My old dance teacher, Jimmy Wilde, a former European ballroom dancing champion, was so sophisticated.
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When I graduated from high school, I made the decision to pursue my dance training in London, England. I was so scared at first, not knowing if this little girl from small town Canada could possibly make it with these highly trained London dancers.
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'The Dance Scene' is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.
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I like dancers. I have a thing for girls who dance.
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I can dance to just about anything.
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I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.
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If I had a rain prayer or a rain dance I could do, I would do it.
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Bright light put me in a trance, but it ain't house music makes me wanna dance.
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If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.
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Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance?
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It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company.
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I had a babysitter when I was 12 or younger. I had a big crush on her. She was really spontaneous and fun and loved to make us sing and dance and paint. She was the coolest person in the world. I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous.
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I like to dance, but I'm not a dancer.
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I can secretly dance, I think. But no one has seen me so I don't know if that's a fair judgment for me to say.
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Dance is like life. It exists as you are flitting through it, and when it's over, it's done.
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Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.
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My surfboard is a 7-foot-3-inch spoon made by Rip Curl, kind of between a longboard and a shortboard. Surfing brings me into the here and now. It's a dance with the present.
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How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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What I found interesting in dance is the idea that my work has always been dealing with the nervousness between the human subject as a subject and the human subject as a form. And if you look at my dance films, there are always these cuts between the dancer as a form, the dancer as a subject, and this kind of very harsh treatment of the dancer as someone who's actually drawing with their body.
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This artistic uprising we had the other night in Washington Square park: there was poetry, there was dance, there was song, there was spoken word; and people left feeling so inspired and so energised. We have to get ourselves out of this syndrome of trauma and being re-traumatised. Art releases this energy. It exposes us to wonder again, and magic again, and ambiguity - all the things we need to really keep going and fighting and resisting in these times.
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Living in a zoo means it wasn't always sparkly dresses, but I would still dress up. I had this pink sparkly dress and fairy wings, and I'd put those on and then go and dance in the zoo.
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When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.
