Martha Graham Quotes

I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

Dancing is a part of my life where when I don't dance I feel like there's something missing because I'm such a physical person who loves to express myself through dance, but I love to act. I love to sing. I love to entertain so if I'm passionate about a certain project, I wanna do it.

I would rather dance as a ballerina, though faultily, than as a flawless clown.

I just know that when I go onstage, I give everything I have, not only my feet, not only my legs, not only my body. I try to tell a story. Sometimes I am able to cry because I feel like it. Sometimes I am able to love because I feel like it.

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

I was privileged to be able to study a year with Martha Graham, the last year she was teaching.

Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am, her genius as a performer will have to be taken on faith - and on the always-suspect evidence of film. What will last, if things go well, is her genius as a choreographer, as a woman of the theater.

Do I watch dancers as people? Yes, absolutely. Do I watch really good dancers for specifically who they are? Absolutely, because how they move best and how they look best is going to be most familiar to them, and not necessarily to me.

I've been dancing all my life, but I never did it seriously.

I've never worried about being rich or famous - for me, it's all about the dancing.

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.

I've always danced. I've always been around it.

It's one of my strongest dance pieces - having just done Play Without Words which was veering away from a lot of dance - I thought it would be nice to go back to something with almost the most dance I'd done.

I've just become obsessed with ballroom dancing. I signed up for the introductory course, which was like a four-week thing. By the end of it, I was hooked. I love it. It's sort of flirty, but it's not sexual. I can't quit until I've got it down and I can really dance. I'm there four or five times a week.

I find that dancers are only well trained in ballet these days.

Tap dancing is something I love, and I've been working on it to get really good.

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

Dancing is part of me now! The Latin dances are where my passions are.

I started dancing when I was 3 in Toledo, Ohio, and started hip-hop dancing at the age of 7.

I love the way in which I make up dances. It's a complicated way and the product is usually clear. Clear and simple. I don't need everybody to know that there are all of these fabulous things going on. If you CAN see it, that's wonderful.

I frequently go to the ballet, but I don't miss it in the sense that I wish I were still dancing.

I did ballet, tap, jazz, modern, I taught dance here in my hometown of St. Louis.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.