Dance Company Quotes

I danced in a company of 'West Side Story' when I was very young. It was most of the original cast - Larry Kert, Chita Rivera - and Jerry Robbins directed. It was tough, a wonderful initiation for me.

Every great dance company, even when it seems poised in perfect balance, needs constant renewal of both repertory and performers.

My dad moved to New York after he won "Soul Train" and the car and got settled in out there and was able to step right into Dance Theatre of Harlem and felt like he was in a show called "Omnibus" and "American Dance Machine."

I actually quit ballet when I was offered a job, an apprenticeship at North Carolina Dance Theater Company, run by John Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride, who are my idols. Everything sort of went perfectly. I was 16, and I was about to drop out of high school and become a professional ballet dancer.

Ballet Hispanico is far from Irish, and, though it has strong dancers, its Spanishness has always left me unconvinced.

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.

It never occurred to me that I'd have a dance company.

I always want to have more dancers in my company.

When I first moved to New York, I was friends with a lot of dancers - people from Merce Cunningham's company and things like that.

My dancers are the real stars.

People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.

I was married to a dancer who had a dance company in New York City, and she toured.

I want one word on my tombstone - dancer.

Audiences love Paul Taylor, and so do I. Not everything, and not always, but year in, year out, he gives me more concentrated pleasure than I get from any other dance company.

There's a line of dancers waiting to get into Sydney Dance Company.

Before founding Ballet Beautiful, I was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet.

Well, it's not full time - my dancers are only paid for six months of the year in two three-month blocks; but yes, it is possible we could do it in another year.

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

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

Dance is so prominent, now more than it's been before, but I still feel like there's this void that needs to be filled that tells the story of a contemporary dancer who is in a company - I don't know, just that's my dream to do that.

Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.

I've done tons of Debbie Allen musicals. I was a dancer in 'Glee,' and I was a Laker girl for three months.

After all these years of saying the same thing about the Alvin Ailey company - terrific dancers, awful repertory - I'm finally accepting the inevitable: I'm not going to change my mind, and they're not going to change their ways. And why should they, given their juggernaut success all over the world?

I am both proud and honored to be on the Board of Directors for the Texas Ballet Theater.

I did grow up in France, and even though I didn't go to the school or dance with the Paris Opera Ballet, I absorbed similar ideas in my training. I understand the scale of a big company. I danced for one for almost 20 years.