Ann Reinking Quotes

Choreographers use me as the old guy who still dances. Not that I put on white tights.

I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What was important at the time in the avant-garde was minimalism.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

As a kid, my main interest was dancing. When I was 8 years old, I was in a hip-hop troupe.

'Dancing With the Stars' was fun, and it opened me up to dancing.

Lots of celebrities have had some sort of dance training, especially actors or singers - they have to have some movement skill and be trained physically.

I'm so excited to be a judge on MTV's 'America's Best Dance Crew.' Dancing and performing is what I do and being a judge on this show will allow me to give creative feedback to the newest and hottest dancers on the rise.

Choreography is something that I am always going to take up, and it will be on the forefront.

I want to see movies that explore different forms and new styles of dance, and also those that revive the old.

I follow dancers like Jennifer Lopez and Beyonce, as they are in my zone, but when it comes to Indian dancing, I am a huge Madhuri Dixit fan.

People think that Salman does his own style of dancing, which he doesn't do most of the time.

I have trained, but not really that much professionally. But 'ABCD2' has been the biggest training ground. I've been exposed to and learnt so many dance forms through this film.

I can move, but I've never background-danced for anybody.

When people think of dance films, they don't really think of good stories.

I absolutely miss dancing. Don't want to do it for a living, I'm getting old, I can't move like I used to. If I had the opportunity to do something on Broadway or a musical, I would jump at the opportunity.

I was just watching "So You Think You Can Dance," flipping channels, and I was like man, I could never do that.

I was glad to have had some dance background because some of the dances are pretty wild.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

I dance with the dancers.

Compositionally I always wanted to be like Fred Astaire.

I always found that kind of hard, and even though Gene Kelly was also a taskmaster, Bobby [Fosse] was tougher.

Even Gene Kelly: I always preferred him to Fred Astaire, just because he was more athletic, like skateboarding. His leaps were big. There was something really great about his moves.

You've never seen me dance, have you?

As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way to do the unnatural.