Karen Kain Quotes

The first dance performance I saw was Joffrey Ballet doing 'Billboards' to Prince.

'The Dance Scene' is basically the most amazing dance show in the world, and it follows me as a creative director. You see how I maintain that creativity.

I enjoy being a choreographer.

And what would be great numbers in a Broadway show are now on stage of the New York City Ballet.

I very much like dance and dancers.

Dancing is my passion. I started as a dancer.

I was a dancer.

I used to be a dancer.

What's always interested me the most about ballet is it's this great opportunity for many different artistic mediums to come together to create a cohesive experience.

I loved being at the Royal Ballet. Those choreographers, MacMillan and Ashton, they knew how to translate complicated life into choreography.

I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.

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.

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

I have worked with several dance companies.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I think of the New York City Ballet as the Yankees without George Steinbrenner.

What 'War and Peace' is to the novel and 'Hamlet' is to the theater, Swan Lake' is to ballet - that is, the name which to many people stands for and sums up an art form.

I thought 'Out of Africa' would be a beautiful ballet.

I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.

Growing up as a dancer, the stage is really where I love to be performance wise.

If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.

'Neverwhere,' by Benjamin Millepied, is set to his favorite composer, Nico Muhly.

All ballet galas are unbearable, but they're unbearable in different ways.

Dance is very, very old. With Louis XIV at Versailles is where ballet started.

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company.