Itay Talgam Quotes

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.

Creating a dance is like coming up with a Chuck Berry riff.

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

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

I feel I can handle the architecture of dance as well as anybody.

I always considered myself a dancer before anything else.

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.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

You may feel that Peter Martins' 'Beauty' is too compressed and inexpressive, but it's loyal to the text.

I've been dancing my entire life. Jazz, hip hop, ballet. And then there's tap dancing. I love to tap.

When I was really young, my mom enrolled me in dance classes.

I started with ballet, and once I started to really like it, I got into more - I did jazz and tap, and then kept going.

'Empty Moves' is elegantly and coolly inventive. Two pairs of dancers shadow each other in slow, deliberate rearrangements and manipulations of legs and torsos, only occasionally switching partners or breaking free of the formal patterning.

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

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.

Absolutely, I'll always be a dancer.

Balanchine was just able to strike the balance between literal narrative and abstract dance.

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

A lot of heroines ask me to make the dance steps easier.

I am a dancer at heart.

I've done a lot of dance sequences because I like them; I like to animate dancing because it's fun and visual.