Quotes by Dancers

Twyla's works are complex, and they really push you as an athlete and push you spiritually as well. Before doing a Twyla ballet, you have to get everything in order: You have to get a good night's sleep, you have to eat well, you have to be in great shape, and then you just go and leave it all out there. Sascha Radetsky

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At Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet Academy, I studied under a brilliant and fiery teacher. This tiny, stuttering old man flew into a rage if his students' white socks failed to reach mid-calf level. Nor could he tolerate floppy hair. We wore hairnets to class - an athletic brigade of short order cooks. Sascha Radetsky

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An ex-ABT ballerina, while staging a ballet for the company, once followed a dancer into the bathroom to deliver notes through the stall door. She was known to bark - literally, like a dog - during private rehearsals. Sascha Radetsky

My style is raw; my style is '95. My style is what I live. My style is my story. Savion Glover

Style Live Raw Story

My personal style at this point in my life is more audio; it's more driven on less visual and more musicality. But because of my upbringing, my fabulous mentors and teachers that I've had throughout my dance journey or career, I also possess a style that is of the past. It was just a matter of me reaching back. Savion Glover

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I love riding my ATV 450. Savion Glover

Love Riding

I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer. Savion Glover

Dancer More Percussion Instrument Than

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music. Savion Glover

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The connection of what I do to flamenco lies in the whole lament, whole cry, whole pouring back into the earth and giving energy back to the earth. It's a cry and a celebration. That's what music, sound, vibration should do. It should spark energy in someone. Savion Glover

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I'm thankful I am able to continue to share the joy and the inspiration tap brings. Savion Glover

Thankful Joy Able Inspiration Share Am Continue Tap Brings

It wasn't until I did a musical revue in Paris in the 1980s called 'Black and Blue,' and met the great men and women responsible for the progress of tap dance, that my relationship with the dance really began. Savion Glover

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I like to express myself inside of the work that is given, and I let the dancers do the same. Savion Glover

Work Myself Dancers Inside Given Like Same Express

I don't deal in terminology, I deal with expressions: colors, shapes, tones, characteristics. Savion Glover

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Jimmy Slyde was more a musician than a dancer; Greg Hines was more musician than dancer. Savion Glover

Dancer Jimmy Musician More Than

Whether it is Jimmy Slyde or Lon Chaney or Gregory Hines, their dance shows what they experienced, what they had to go through. Savion Glover

Dance Jimmy Through Had Go Experienced Whether Shows

When I wake up in the morning, I just go. Savion Glover

Morning Wake Up Go Wake Up Just

I never really stop and think about should I put my hat on this way or that, not thinking that little JoJo down the street would be copying that. I'm more conscious about it now and tell the kids that it's not about the shoes or what kind of shoes... it's all about the dance. Savion Glover

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