33 Choreographer Quotes for You to Enjoy

As much as I love to travel and be on stage and perform, I knew at a very young age that I wanted to be a choreographer and a director. Alyssa Edwards

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I have two best friends - the dancer and choreographer Bobby Newberry and my former bandmate Kimberley Wyatt. Ashley Roberts

Best Dancer Friends Former Bobby Choreographer Two

I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six weeks with my band, crew and choreographer to put a new show together. We'd spend eight hours per day, seven days per week putting a show together to beat the last year's show. Barbara Mandrell

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The Horny Toad in Cave Creek has great food. When I'm in Arizona, I have at least one meal there. I have a daughter who lives out there, and Dee Dee Wood, who was the choreographer on 'Mary Poppins,' lives out there. I still get out there once in a while, but not in the summer. Dick Van Dyke

In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography. Donnie Yen

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Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character. Donnie Yen

On the videos for '1234' and 'My Moon My Man' I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I'm not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me. Feist

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Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer. Gal Gadot

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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

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence. Johnny Weir

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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 Age Adult Studying Ballet Choreographer

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed. Judith Jamison

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It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space. Justin Peck

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My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around. Lindsey Haun

Music Mother Around Always Been Choreographer

A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderful thing on 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was that we had Philip Kwok - he choreographed John Woo's 'Hard Boiled,' and in the '70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong. Mark Dacascos

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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. Mark Morris

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I'm a choreographer and a director, and I have no ambition beyond that. Matthew Bourne

Director Ambition Beyond Choreographer

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph. Mikhail Baryshnikov

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It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow. Pina Bausch

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What's interesting was with all the shows I did on Broadway, I was either the dance captain or the assistant choreographer - I sort of worked my way up to that kind of thing - and I always was interested in more than just the dancers and the numbers. I would always sneak into the room and watch the scene work. Rob Marshall

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