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I'm going to continue to tap until I can't move. Savion Glover

Until Continue Tap Going Move

The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet. Savion Glover

Saying Best Not Talking Brothers About Something Feet Talking Were Really

Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work. Siobhan Davies

Life Work Good Dance Will Year Dancers Independent Fine Able Remains Good Thing Tougher Periods Accept Provided Very Expect Being Much Really Choice Moments Thing

One of our problems is our sense of discipline - dancers have an extraordinary sense of self-discipline. Siobhan Davies

Discipline Problems Sense Extraordinary Our Dancers Self-Discipline

The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made. Siobhan Davies

Made First Through Weeks Piece Learn How Process

There's a mass of places, really, where the idea started. Siobhan Davies

Idea Mass Where Places Really Started

They should be working, and there isn't enough work. Siobhan Davies

Work Enough Should Working

Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water. Siobhan Davies

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development. Siobhan Davies

Experience People Resource About More Develop Development Talking Got Years Trying Us Help Using Professionals

We need to think on a broader plane, we need to do more than we're doing. Siobhan Davies

Think Broader More Doing Than Plane Need

You don't learn from a situation where you do something well. You enjoy it and you give yourself credit, but you don't really learn from that. You learn from trial and error, trial and error, all the time. Suzanne Farrell

Time You Yourself Situation Enjoy Trial Trial And Error Give Something Well Learn Error Where Really Credit

I had two sisters, and we would love to get dressed up and pretend that we were chic, sophisticated ladies. And I think that was a great sort of preparation, in a way. Suzanne Farrell

Love Great Preparation Think Way Pretend Would Dressed Had Sophisticated Sort Were Chic Up Sisters Get Ladies Two

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition. Suzanne Farrell

Competition Healthy Another Because Tests Form Loved Competing

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be. Suzanne Farrell

I liked tap, because I liked hearing the results of my movements. Suzanne Farrell

Results Liked Because Tap Hearing Movements

I didn't care too much for ballet, because you had to be more disciplined, and you sort of looked like everyone else. It required a certain kind of conformity that I didn't feel like I wanted to do. Suzanne Farrell

I learned to love dance for its own sake. Suzanne Farrell

Love Dance Own Learned Sake To Love

On the other hand, I think it is wonderful for everyone to take ballet classes, at any age. It gives you a discipline, it gives you a place to go. It gives you some control in your life. Suzanne Farrell

Life You Age Wonderful Discipline Control Think Other Everyone Classes Some Gives Take Ballet Go Hand Any Place Your

When you are on stage, you don't see faces. The lights are in your eyes and you see just this black void out in front of you. And yet you know there is life out there, and you have to get your message across. Suzanne Farrell

Life You Eyes Black Stage Out See Faces Void Lights Know Message Get Front Just Across Your

I didn't have any doubts about my choice of career, but I had constant doubts about my ability, yes. Suzanne Farrell

Constant Ability About Had Yes Any Choice Doubts Career

I can't read a note. I have lots of discipline, but I can't sit still at any instrument. Suzanne Farrell

Discipline Sit Instrument Read Still Lots Any Note

I have learned a great deal from the theatrical side of Covent Garden. The Paris Opera Ballet is more concerned with technique. It's perfect. It's beautiful. It's well done. But it lacks the theatrical tradition that is so important in England. At the Royal Ballet, absolutely everyone on stage seems to be caught up in the plot. Sylvie Guillem

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