Choreography Quotes

When you start with an idea, or something hits you, then you have to follow that through to the end, and it's the following through to the end that makes the pattern. That, for me, is choreography. (Martha Graham)
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear. View quote
Vera Wang
I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. View quote
Yvonne Strahovski
When working on my choreography I am not always receptive to outside suggestions or opinions. I believe that if you have something in mind in the way of a creation, such as a new dance, a sequence, or an effect, you are certain to come up with inaccurate criticism and damaging results if you go around asking for opinions. View quote
Fred Astaire
The slender, swift Bruce Lee was the Fred Astaire of martial arts, and many of the fights that could be merely brutal come across as lightning-fast choreography. View quote
Pauline Kael
To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.' View quote
Catherine Zeta-Jones
When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French. View quote
LaToya Jackson
When I first began choreographing, I never thought of it as choreography but as expressing feelings. Though every piece is different, they are all trying to get at certain things that are difficult to put into words. In the work, everything belongs to everything else - the music, the set, the movement and whatever is said. View quote
Pina Bausch
I had certain physical limitations that made me change the choreography for myself or made me more interested in choreography only rather than dancing. I have never been a person who wanted to just dance. I have always been interested in developing for other people. View quote
Katherine Dunham
Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us. View quote
Katherine Dunham
Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music. (Alvin Ailey)
Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images. View quote
Benjamin Millepied
I had actually been on tour in Japan and I had my own world tour that I was doing. I was used to doing a show for an hour, so I was always learning choreography. View quote
Christina Milian
I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment. View quote
Delta Burke
Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience. View quote
George Szell
Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists. View quote
Paula Abdul
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. View quote
Santigold
Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move. View quote
Wayne McGregor
I have had to do most of my choreography. I would say most of it, with help from various choreographers I have worked with. View quote
Fred Astaire
From this new alliance – for until now costume and scenery on one hand, choreography on the other, have been linked only artificially – there has resulted in Parade a kind of sur-réalisme. View quote
Guillaume Apollinaire
Merce [Cunningham] is my favorit artist in any field. Sometimes I'm pleased by the complexity of a work I paint. By the fourth day I realize it's simple. Nothing Merce [Cunningham] does [choreography for dance] is simple. Everything has a fascinating richness and multiplicity of direction. [Jasper Johns did a lot of décors for :Merce Cunningham, as Robert Rauschenberg did and Frank Stella, ]. (Jasper Johns)
When I began singing 'Conga' athletes from all over the world busted out of formation to dance with me, [and] I thought: 'Wow, what a great choreography!.' I thought it was planned. But then the tower started shaking and I thought: 'Great, first the bus, then the boat, now the tower! View quote
Gloria Estefan
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music. View quote
Lou Reed
It's weird when you see pieces of choreography that were done for you 15 or 20 years ago and now they are being done by another dance company. View quote
Mikhail Baryshnikov
I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography. View quote
Mikhail Baryshnikov