I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.
I'm a pretty goofy person. I'm an awkward dancer, for instance, and a terrible singer.
People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life.
Love can be seen as the answer, but nobody bleeds for the dancer
Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.
Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet
For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I've done it with my feet bloody.
I had been working predominantly and steadily as a dancer, so after awhile, you don't have to audition. I was just in that world, and I had certain goals I wanted to reach, but I definitely always wanted to keep going and challenge myself and become an actor.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
Hoop Dancer is a rendering of my understanding of the process by which one enters into timelessness -- that place where one is whole.
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
Hey, boss. Where are you?” she asked. “I just picked up something to eat. What about professional belly dancers?” “Um, I don’t know, maybe with horseradish.
I'm not a great dancer. I know I'm not. But I know that I can move. I can throw shapes, just not in the right order.
We insist on permanency, on continuity, when the only continuity possible is in growth, in freedom, in the sense that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass but partners in the same pattern. The only real security in a relationship lies neither in looking back in nostalgia, nor forward with dread or anticipation, but living in the present and accepting the relationship as it is now.
In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.
I think it's useful to experience other types of dance and other cultures, and the life of a classical dancer these days is certainly not all tutus! So experience of other dance forms is a good idea.
Being a former dancer, classical dancer, it informed me as a human being just in terms of the grace I guess. Ballet is a very graceful form of art. You also become very aware of your body and your mind and your body is working in conjunction. That kind of helps you in acting as well. It's not only using your mind, it's like making your mind communicate this character into your body so that you can bring it to life and physicalize it.
"You're next, after the feather dancers. " And you had to get their attention, because otherwise people would go, "Oh, a poet. " You really have to learn.