Choreographers Quotes - Page 5

• Some things need to be a song. Some things need to be a play. Some things need to be a painting. Some things need to be-though I'd never be a choreographer-some things might ought to be a dance [laughs]. I've found that exploring an idea in different ways, it gives you different opportunities.

  Andy Wilkinson

  Song, Writing, Opportunity

  4 Copy quote

• Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

  Rihanna

  Growing Up, Dancing, Perfect

  7 Copy quote

• I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

  Donald O'Connor

  Remember, I Can

  4 Copy quote

• Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.

  Ishmael Reed

  Dog, New Orleans, Popcorn

  8 Copy quote

• I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

  Angel Corella

  Ideas, Ballet, Mind

  5 Copy quote

• We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the great arts. . . . The important thing in ballet is the movement itself. A ballet may contain a story, but the visual spectacle . . . is the essential element. The choreographer and the dancer must remember that they reach the audience through the eye. It's the illusion created which convinces the audience, much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Art, Believe, Independent

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  182 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not interested in a group of people with some sort of incredible homogeny,a group that can do the movement I want. I'm interested in people whocan take the movement somewhere.

  Graeme Murphy

  Dance, People, Groups

  45 Copy quote

• The choreographer and the dancer must remember
that they reach the audience through the eye.
It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,
much as it is with the work of a magician.

  George Balanchine

  Dance, Eye, Remember

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  25 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never danced a step in my life so naturally. My first motion picture was a musical, and Bob Fosse was the choreographer. I didn't exactly dance for Fosse, I just did the best that I could to do what he taught us to do.

  Dick York

  Life, Taught Us, Musical

  4 Copy quote

• It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.

  Johnny Weir

  Spring, Russia, Colorado

  4 Copy quote

• It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

  Donald Byrd

  Artist, Color, Black

  8 Copy quote

• I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

  Nick Offerman

  Fighting, Chicago, Scene

  4 Copy quote

• All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Music, Dance, Drama

  17 Copy quote

• There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

  Tatsumi Hijikata

  Type

  6 Copy quote

• I have maintained a low profile throughout my career but have always done things in my own unique way, be it dancing or dressing up. On the dance floor, I had my own unique steps and often had to lead my choreographer.

  Mithun Chakraborty

  Unique, Dressing Up, Careers

  4 Copy quote

• Collaborations work when both or however many parties are the right people to be working together for whatever reason - whether it's two musicians or a musician and a filmmaker or a musician and a choreographer, if the combination is right, the possibility exists to make something greater than the individuals could make. But if the combination is wrong than you generally end up with a compromised piece is probably less than the individuals could make.

  John Parish

  Party, Two, People

  "PJ Harvey and John Parish". Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 27, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'

  Taye Diggs

  Bachelorette

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

  Judith Jamison

  Class, Ballet, Age

  "Portrait of the artist". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  Practice, Creative, Glee

  "Harry Shum Jr: I love that people see dancers as artists now". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 11, 2010.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

  Lucinda Childs

  Trying, Concerts, Productions

  Source: www.kcet.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have the most respect for Zach Woodlee. He is one of my favorite - and one of the most capable - choreographers out there right now.

  Harry Shum, Jr.

  My Favorite, Right Now, Capable

  5 Copy quote

• I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

  Paul Lansky

  Fun, Writing, Worry

  Source: therumpus.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.

  Janet Jackson

  Style, Veins, Flavor

  7 Copy quote

• An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

  Donnie Yen

  Moving, Directors, Cameras

  "Interview with Action Film Star Donnie Yen". "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's like a dance, to choreograph a fight is like a dance. It's very specific. You have to carefully plan it out. Because if someone gets hurt, then we didn't do our job, someone screwed up. The fight choreographers and the actors involved, we messed up somewhere.

  Bryan Cranston

  Hurt, Jobs, Fighting

  "Bryan Cranston Talks Cohaagen, the End of BREAKING BAD, Turning Down X-MEN: FIRST CLASS & More on the Set of TOTAL RECALL". collider.com. June 12, 2012.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source