We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should. . . bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"
Dance is communication, and so the great challenge is to speak clearly, beautifully and with inevitability.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.
I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home.
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances.
A choreographic idea flows only as fast as the initiator can communicate it to bodies and see them realize it.
'Footloose' is a fun movie. If you do it right, people should leave wanting to dance.
Mia Michaels is to my mind one of the most interesting choreographers alive right now and my colleague and my friend from So You Think (You Can Dance).
I think the most significant moment at a wedding is when you say "I do" and when you do the first dance.
People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.
If I'm home alone, I just dance. . . it's my own little secret.
James Brown lives, as long as someone steps out of their body and dances uncontrollably.
Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set you apart from other dancers. The only way you can be different is to be yourself If you don't find your spirit and reveal it, you just look like every other dancer.
Just because you've been on stage doesn't mean you can dance.
Billie Jean was a negative dance song, and that was one of the best dance songs ever.
I will dance and resist and dance and persist and dance. This heartbeat is louder than death.
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns.
Leaves are light, and useless, and idle, and wavering, and changeable; they even dance; and yet God in his wisdom has made them a part of oaks. And in so doing he has given us a lesson, not to deny the stout-heartedness within because we see the lightsomeness without.
There are a lot of composers who were fantastic, but I challenge them to write a record that you could play five times a day for two months on the radio, songs that people will want to dance to on a Saturday night.
The body is a sacred garment.