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Quotes by Dancer
"Once I started dancing, I was not the spoiled brat or the rebellious child that I was as a child."
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"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on."
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"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie."
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"We still spend more time chasing funds than we do in the studio in creative work."
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"Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater."
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"My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry."
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"As you get older, the physical abilities decrease, which is particularly frustrating because your brain gets so good! So as you are becoming less technically or physically able, younger dancers are emerging who need the space to perform."
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"Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to."
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"I think that anyone who's pushed to do the very best that they can is privileged. It's a luxury."
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"Sometimes I have given my husband a manuscript to read that has turned out to have fantastic rave reviews and he'll tell me it is no good. Well, if I didn't know him as well as I know him I would be terribly depressed."
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"Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?"
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"People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward."
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"I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head."
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"It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance."
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"No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business."
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"I don't think politicians should be allowed into power who are not familiar with their bodies, because that's where our bottom line is. And I know that they would make totally different decisions if they felt responsible simply for their own bodies."
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"Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion."
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"The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally."
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"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music."
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"People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!"
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"No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible."
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"A pas de deux is a dialogue of love. How can there be conversation if one partner is dumb?"
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"It's ungrateful to be wishing you were doing something else at the moment you are living. You haven't lived in the moment that you are really living, you are wishing you were somewhere else."
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"I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do."
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"I'm thrilled at the moment because our audiences, you know, they... the demographic is 50% male."
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"Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place."
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"Disney is thrilling and informative and important and beautiful and suspect. Butts was a detail I observed later and definitely ties in. I suppose I was programmed, yeah."
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"That piece has been choreographed so badly so many times. I'm loathe to do it but I may eventually because it is one of the seminal art works of the twentieth century."
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"With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood."
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"I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely."
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"Every ballet, whether or not successful artistically or with the public, has given me something important."
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"The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous."
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"Dance has never been a particularly easy life, and everybody knows that."
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"We should realize in a vivid and revolutionary sense that we are not in our bodies but our bodies are in us."
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