Choreography Quotes - Page 3

• I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.

  Dawn Angelique

  Important, Body, Whole Life

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.

  Hiroyuki Sanada

  Japan, Done, Samurai

  Source: collider.com

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• Composition and choreography were always very important to me and I choreographed for my earliest training.

  Jack Waters

  Training, Important, Composition

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Choreography is writing on your feet.

  Bob Fosse

  Writing, Feet

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• Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

  Ted Shawn

  Inspirational, Dance, Art

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• Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

  Mary Schmich

  Inspirational, Dance, Ballet Class

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital

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• Capoeira was designed to look like a dance, and it's actually an incredibly effective means of fighting. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing. That's what's great about the choreography that goes on here. It's a delicate ballet with a fist in the face.

  David Lyons

  Mean, Fighting, Boxing

  Source: collider.com

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• The choreographer cannot deliberately make a ballet to appeal to an audience, he has to start from personal inspirations. He has to trust the ballet, to let it stand on its own strengths or fall on its weaknesses. If it reaches the audience, then he is lucky that round!

  Gerald Arpino

  Inspirational, Dance, Fall

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• Hip hop dancing is more like choreography and it's more made up and you have to learn it. This, this Krump and Clowning you can't learn, it's just in you, the music moves you, you know. It's raw and organic, you know, it's like whatever comes out of you, you make it up tempo with the rhythm, you know, and it just comes out.

  Tommy the Clown

  Moving, Dancing, Hip Hop

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Friendship, Art, Believe

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• Well we've got to do a lot of kung fu choreography, which was really cool. Like I have, you know, like the big hammer that I use, kind of like a staff in a sense. So I get to use that like a really cool weapon. Kung fu style. And it's just really fun to get to learn that and execute it in a way that looks cool on screen. It just feels really rewarding.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Fun, Style, Weapons

  Source: collider.com

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• I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.

  David Carradine

  Dancer, Gymnast, Kung Fu

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.

  Sufjan Stevens

  Mean, Trying, Tradition

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times.

  Susan Stroman

  Moving, Thinking, Theatre

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• For me, it's very important if I do action movies and I have a stunt person, to work with them. Not only by memorizing the choreography but also it's important to study that individual and it's imperative for that individual to study you because you're not playing two different people, you're playing the same person.

  Zoe Saldana

  Two, People, Important

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I rehearsed it a lot underwater with a mouthpiece for Casino Royale and not freaking out, because you can't see a thing. It's like being in a really bad nightmare. I've never seen somebody drown, but I really swallowed water. It was like choreography. It was very emotional. I was crying underwater at one point.

  Eva Green

  Emotional, Water, Nightmare

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• It's funny, because it's like the fight when you watch it, it's probably going to be like five minutes, but it's taken us like a month to shoot it so I think what was really interesting was that instead of going through an entire fight sequence, you're doing one or two moves over and over and over, so I'd say it's less exhausting than actually training, because you're not really constantly going over the choreography, like the whole entire thing with everybody. You're just doing that one part that they need in the shot.

  Ellen Wong

  Taken, Moving, Fighting

  Source: collider.com

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• There's a dance that happens with you and that's why I really like doing it with stunt men, because they know how to dance generally better than actors do. It is choreography and if you aren't used to doing it things can go wrong.

  Channing Tatum

  Men, Actors, Used

  "Channing Tatum Talks Working with Roland Emmerich and Jamie Foxx, Doing His Own Stunts, MAGIC MIKE 2 and More on the Set of WHITE HOUSE DOWN". Group Interview in between Set-ups, collider.com. April 10, 2013.

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• I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

  Santigold

  Taken, Opportunity, Creative

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• When I go to throw a punch, actually, my intention is to hit somebody. That's just second nature to me. So you have to just rewire yourself. It's not something where you have to sit and subconsciously think about it, but you kind of have to just put yourself in that mode and go with it. Learning the fight scenes, I've never had to learn choreography before, so learning the fight scenes was like learning a dance or something like that. I had a little bit of influence in the fight scenes and I tried to put as much influence there as I could, but I had fun doing it.

  Rich Franklin

  Fun, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I wouldn't say I'm the "nice" judge, but I was certainly reminded a couple of times that this is for a million dollars. There's one thing to just do a good dance, but I had to ask myself, "Is that the million-dollar dance?" There are certain dances that people prefer, and I preferred the intelligent and smart choreography.

  Derek Hough

  Couple, Nice, Smart

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• We need a change in consciousness to go with this technology platform. We need a new narrative: we need to shift from geopolitics to biosphere consciousness in one generation. The biosphere is understood here as what goes from the biosphere to the depths of the ocean 40 miles where all living beings interact with all chemicals to create a very complex choreography that we call "life on earth". That is biosphere that is our indivisible community.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Ocean, Technology, Community

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• I think it's important for people to understand that dance, movement, choreography is about an experience and entertainment but it's also about perception and a lens. So when we're talking about a Black female's experience through a Black female's lens, that's going to be totally different from a Black female's perspective through a Black male's lens.

  Camille A. Brown

  Thinking, People, Perspective

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.

  Paula Abdul

  Strong, Men, Dancer

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• There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.

  Chris Jericho

  Wrestling, Light, Feet

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