Oti Mabuse Quotes

I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

I have very strong feelings about dance and how it's shot.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.

An artistic standpoint - I've watched a lot of ballet and source some inspiration from how they move, connect with each other, and find meaning in their movement.

I'm trying to create ballets that I would enjoy seeing.

I've always thought of the process of creating ballets as being this kind of team effort. It's not like being a painter, where you have your paint, and you have canvas, and you just go at it. I'm working with these living, breathing, functioning human beings, and they have their own thoughts and ideas about what works well movement-wise.

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.

We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others.

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

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

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.

Their way of Dancing, is nothing but a sort of stamping Motion, much like the treading upon Founders Bellows.

I didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

Dance is one of the most revealing art forms.

Honestly, I am so ignorant of how dance works that I can't even imagine a story that you would want to tell through movement.

Dance has been a big passion for me.

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.

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 was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.

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

I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.

'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.

I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.

Dance stories, unlike those in opera, are usually simple.