Savion Glover Quotes

The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Dance is the most fundamental of all art forms.

I'm a pretty decent tap dancer. I enjoy all types of dancing, actually.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.

Dance is in my background.

I always liked dancing and you'd go to class and find you had an hour acting and an hour of ballet.

When it comes down to dance, dance is about movement to music.

I was always interested in choreography - in making people think and feel something.

Dance is about portraying and telling a story and whether that be two males, two females, a group of guys, or a group of girls, it doesn't matter as long as the story is beautiful.

Tap is still the central driving force of my life. I think and talk in dance.

Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.

Dance has always just been an extension of music for me. It's about putting my music into motion. It's just another dimension that I tap into with my music that not many artists do anymore.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

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.

The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body.

I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.

I like to tell stories through dancing and singing.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

Each dancer has a different dialect that they speak.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

I can't claim to 'understand' 'Byzantium,' if any dance work can be 'understood,' but whenever I see it, I sense that it's charged with meaning.

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel more comfortable with the word 'performer'. I like being the thing. I like being the doer. There's a factualness to it. And then certain resonances happen out of how you apply yourself physically.