Movement Quality Quotes

In the dance world, it has to be in your genetic make-up - your body has to suit the training.

Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

Part of what's mesmerizing about 'The Mechanics of History' is its physical eloquence - how dancerly it is. The men don't fall; they float. And when the trampoline restores them to the staircase, they move at a half speed. Cinema, they say, is 24 frames per second.

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.

At the ballet classes I took when I first came to New York, I would see great dancers like Cynthia Gregory and Lupe Serrano. I would look at them and study what they could do, and what I couldn't do. And then I'd think maybe they should try what I could do.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

For ballet dancers, style is about melding personal expression with physical form.

The great players have a set of golf clubs in their feet

I am dancing all the time. Every gesture, the body line of every pose, the way I get from place to place, the movement in the acting - none of it would be the way it is if I weren't a dancer.

I think it's one thing to be able to dance, and it's another thing to learn all the wonderful moments of dance because in my day... it was the moving of dance.

I've been working on it a lot, trying to find the artistic balance, trying to find purpose in my movement combined with the jumps.

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

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement.

I may be able to concentrate on a move, but it may not look exactly how I need it to look like, as far as in the ballroom world. Hip-hop is different; it is a lot more flowy with ballroom.

I like to be around dancers who are totally committed to the art form, totally committed to the men and women around them.

A lot of the time, when I'm choreographing, I'm not thinking about what movement look best next to the next movement - I'm actually thinking about what song and what sound sounds right next to the next thing. So kind of choreographing as if I'm always making a mix tape, so to speak.

I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.

I've always been excited by the strangeness of ballet, but I can't bear it when people just come forward and do a turn in the air for no reason.

The Fosse technique really does have to have a delicacy and an elegance to it.

We know that Diana Vishneva is a phenomenon of strength and style, and she certainly has earned the right to stretch her talents as best she can.

Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

Ditya Bhande is a nice dancer.

I want people to look like people when they're dancing.

The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

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