Best Choreographers Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Ultimately there is no such thing as failure. There are lessons learned in different ways.”

“We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.”

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Author:PSY

“I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.”

Greatness Missions My Time Choreographers

Author:Twyla Tharp

“You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.”

Believe Motivation Dance Believe In Yourself Urges Believe In You Vitality Unrest Choreographers Quickening

Author:Martha Graham

“A painter is a choreographer of space.”

Space Painter Choreographers

Author:Barnett Newman

“Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy.”

Joy Growth Music Progress Teaching Dance Celebrate Celebration Choreographers Inspirational Dance

Author:Alvin Ailey

“The one reason people don't take dance seriously is because a lot of choreographers don't take dance seriously.”

People Reason Choreographers

Author:Mark Morris

“Sure, I could give advice; I could, say, travel the world, listen to music. But all I can really say is do something you want to do and do it well. And if you want to be a choreographer, then you have to make dances.”

Ifs World Want Giving Wells I Can Advice Listening To Music Travel The World Choreographers

Author:Mark Morris

“A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it's about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone's idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you're emotionally effected.”

Feels Littles Ideas Stories Deals Creative Stage Movement Directors Lighting Choreographers Executing

Author:Laurieann Gibson

“Kun-Yang Lin is a young Taiwanese choreographer with strong American modern dance roots. (His) New York debut at the Cunningham studio were notable for their craft and sturdy spirituality.”

Young Spirituality Strong Modern New York Roots Studios Crafts Notable Debut Choreographers Sturdy Yang Modern Dance Cunninghams

Author:Jennifer Dunning

“Every film, every fight choreographer, wants to have a different flair, have a different fight technique. So any film I've done that involved weapons has always been fascinating because everyone is different.”

Want Different Done Film Fighting Involved Weapons Technique Fascinating Choreographers Flair Everyone Is Different

Author:Luke Evans

“Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.”

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.”

“Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”

Inspirational Mean Faces Desire Vision Practice Perfection Dancing Dance Obstacles Generosity Inviting Choreographers Dance Performance

Author:Martha Graham

“Dance is the hidden langauge of the soul, of the body.”

“What makes people and companies and artistic directors and choreographers interested in working with dancers is the ability to kind of let go of everything you think you know and be a blank canvas.”

People Thinking Knows Kind Ability Company Directors Letting Go Artistic Dancer Blank Canvas Choreographers You Think You Know Blank Canvas

Author:Misty Copeland

“The number of e-mails and letters that I get from choreographers, from sculptors, from composers who are being inspired by science is huge.”

Numbers Huge Letters Inspired Composer Mail Sculptors Choreographers

Author:Brian Greene

“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.”

Artist Stuff Music Drama Musician Dance Conversion Dancer Etc Translations Choreographers

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“Failure: Is it a limitation? Bad timing? It's a lot of things. It's something you can't be afraid of, because you'll stop growing. The next step beyond failure could be your biggest success in life.”

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Author:Debbie Allen

“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.”

Fighting Stage Scene Theater Chicago Combat Choreographers

Author:Nick Offerman

“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.”

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Author:Donnie Yen

“There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.”

Type Choreographers

Author:Tatsumi Hijikata

“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.”

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Author:Mithun Chakraborty

“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.”

People Ifs Two Ends Reason Together Individual Party Greater Pieces Possibility Musician Combination Filmmaker Working Together Collaboration Choreographers

Author:John Parish

“You cannot dance physically certain things. But look at tango dancers or flamenco or Japanese classical theater. You can, if you're smart enough and you collaborate with the right choreographers, you could really dance your age.”

Ifs Looks Enough Age Certain Smart Theater Dancer Choreographers Tango Flamenco

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“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.”

Ifs Jobs Fighting Actors Hurt Plans Involved Messed Up Screwed Up Choreographers

Author:Bryan Cranston

“When I'm taking my last breath, I want to look at how I used up the best of myself. How much did I sweat, push, pull, rip, fall, hit, crash, explode?...My dream is to be so well-used that in my last-half second, I just burst into dust.”

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“I know a lot of choreographers prefer to do abstract dance and not be bothered with a story, but even when I'm asked to do classical ballet or a modern piece, I still want to tell a story.”

Knows Want Stills Stories Pieces Modern Abstract Ballet Bothered Choreographers

Author:Susan Stroman

“We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a song has to advance the story. Then real directors like Mike Nichols tell you where you can have 'B themes' and 'C themes', and we go oh yes, B themes and C themes! So we were taught in the finest school amongst the finest people. And also by the school of experience.”

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Author:Eric Idle

“As a dancer I had worked with really hard choreographers, Jerome Robbins being the toughest. And you learned what it is to hit against a brick wall. And you learned pretty quickly to go around the wall or say, "I can't take this job."”

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Author:Joan Tewkesbury

“You are not a female or a male - you are a dancer. And when I started going into choreography I became part of a team of people making movies. I wasn't a woman choreographer. I was a choreographer.”

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Author:Anne Fletcher

“Mia Michaels is to my mind one of the most interesting choreographers alive right now and my colleague and my friend from So You Think (You Can Dance).”

Thinking Mind Interesting Alive Right Now My Friends Colleagues Most Interesting Choreographers Mia

Author:Adam Shankman

“I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did "Get the Funk Out".”

Extremes Video 80s Really Weird Funk Choreographers

Author:Adam Shankman

“So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look.”

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Author:Alonzo King

“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.”

Way Kind Used Bits Style Stuck Veins Flavor Choreographers

Author:Janet Jackson

“Unlike a lot of choreographers, I don't always start with the music. I often start with a visual artist, and then find music that fits the world of that visual artist.”

World Artist Fit Visuals Visual Art Choreographers Visual Artist

Author:Wayne McGregor

“You had to give, uh, a lot of consideration to the fact that, uh, the artist had to come back into the mike area and start singing, especially the background singers, you know. And you had to make sure they had a couple of bars of music in order to catch their breath. And uh, in many cases a lot of choreographers didn't give that, uh, the proper thought.”

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Author:Cholly Atkins

“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.”

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Author:Paul Lansky

“That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.”

Long Important Real Long Time Choreographers

Author:Zeena Parkins

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

Trying Productions Concerts Choreographers

Author:Lucinda Childs

“The people that have inspired me the most were dancers and choreographers.”

People Inspired Dancer Choreographers

Author:Jillian Hervey

“Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.”

Want Artist Stars One Thing Dancer Movie Star Choreographers

Author:Sergei Polunin

“The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.”

Want Left Stars Cities New York Musical Studios Brilliant New York City Choreographers Mayer Fosse

Author:Debbie Reynolds

“I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.”

Want Action Actors Directors Stress Producers Investors Choreographers

Author:Jackie Chan

“Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?”

“I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability to figure out people's rhythms. It all starts from the script.”

People Needs Mean Born Ability Figures Directors Yeah Scripts Rhythm Choreographers

Author:Sandra Bullock

“I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn't flow, and it's very tense.”

Energy Difficult Situation Couple Flow Tension Dancer Tense Choreographers

Author:Blanca Li

“I don't go to a gym, I don't do yoga. I don't do personal training.”

Training Yoga Gym Fitness Choreographers Gymnasiums

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.”

Inspiration Motivational Running Fall Dance Technique Ballet Fall Back Choreographers

Author:Rudolf Nureyev

“A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.”

Directors Choreographers

Author:William Shatner

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