Damian Woetzel Quotes

I have been very lucky to work in so many new ballets, but that is what a dancer's work is.

I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

I wanted to be a ballet teacher.

And I just thought, this is what I want to be. And I knew that dancing would be my chosen profession.

Growing up in Niagara Falls, Ontario, I took classes as a young girl and became very serious about ballet, and also performed with a local company, although it wasn't a professional company.

When I was 16, I moved to Torrance, California to train at a more advanced studio, and by 19, I joined the American Ballet Theatre in New York. It all happened so fast - it was pretty unheard of that someone could train for so few years and become a professional at one of the most elite dance companies in the United States.

In fact, I never gave up doing dance shows despite films and even started my own dance school.

I am seriously thinking of making dance as my major profession.

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

I'd studied dance in Chicago every summer end taught it all winter, and I was well-rounded. I wasn't worried about getting a job on Broadway. In fact, I got one the first week.

I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.

Dancers can get to see almost everything now. When I used to go into companies to make a piece, the dancers had hardly ever seen my work. Now they can watch it on YouTube. It means they're much faster at picking up material.

I studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before moving on to Miami's New World School of the Arts, and from there, I went on to study at The Juilliard School.

When I came into the industry I started with acting and I did drama during junior high and high school. I fell into dancing as a hobby, but whenever you need work, you try out different things. So I booked a lot of jobs for dancing and it kept rolling and rolling.

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

I think the inception of my interest in arts was when I was around 9 or 10 and I started dancing. I was really convinced that I was going to go to New York and be onstage in 'A Chorus Line.'

I've danced since I was 5 and went to the School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center at 7.

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

I decided to go to dance school at 22, which is late for a dancer.

I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet - something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.

The idea, as a director, is to be able to bring everybody on board and to inspire and give energy to everybody and to explain specific color, specific ambience. I need to be very precise, but I think I'm a better director when I'm more a channeler than a dictator.

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

Alice Ripley was someone who had had a huge effect on me when I had gotten out of college and decided that this was the road I wanted to take - to write musicals.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.