My family plays a big part in my role as a dancer and my sister was my first trainer. She’s still my role model and inspiration until this day. She was my first trainer, she taught me my first steps.
People who got on their feet and freaked about were called idiot dancers. and nobody wants to be called an idiot dancer. But the whole idea of rock and roll is to get people off their arses – that’s what it’s about.
I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer’s body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it’s a good way to decompress.
I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around.
I am not a natural dancer.
Beyonce has very clear ideas – she knows exactly what she wants. The thing which she then also has over other celebrities is that she has an amazing voice. She’s incredibly talented, and she’s an amazing dancer – she’s complete. Few are like Beyonce.
I’m not a dancer at all.
Chiranjeevi garu is my favourite dancer.
As a dancer running around the world, I always questioned whether that’s what I wanted to do.
I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn’t know how else to get off, so I danced off. I’ve been dancing ever since, but I’m still a comedian.
I’m doing what every guy in America has secretly fantasized – being a Chippendales dancer and having women throw themselves at you.
‘The Dance Scene’ is just a real look at what it takes. You see the award shows. You see the videos and you never realize what goes on behind the scenes. The reality and the preparation. The motivation I have to give each dancer on that set.
I do believe I’m not good enough to be a professional dancer. I believe that in my heart.
I was a ballet dancer and that kind of bled into musical theater. I was constantly in rehearsal for one thing or another.
A lot of my joy this year has been to give away awards to young people, no matter of race, creed or color, because they were a terrific violinist or a terrific dancer.
For me, as an actress, being a dancer has helped me. I’ve done it with my feet bloody.
When I was a dancer, I felt this great sense of knowing my body and being in my body, and I think it’s really easy as women to lose that and not really be one and loving it.
I was a dancer and didn’t ever think I could become a female wrestler, but here I am and doing it.
People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they’re sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I’d dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.
I’m not a good dancer.
As a dancer, I know couples that have stayed married but separated to dance on different continents. Dance in general, but ballet in particular, is such a finite career. You can’t do it later in life, and it’s something that I think a dancer has to have some selfishness to fulfill.
We are a very typical Spanish family – a bullfighter, an actress, a flamenco dancer and singer!
The reason behind Hrithik being the best dancer is that he never takes his work for granted.
It’s like, either you’re a great dancer and you’re going to do great, or it doesn’t come naturally to you.
Due to a big bust in Cuba, my father’s business suffered badly, so I was free to choose my own career. I became a professional dancer, and I went on the road and started making real money.
Well, it’s quite strange because there are three new Wiggles – Simon the red wiggle, Lachlan the purple wiggle and myself. We were already in the company doing different roles. Like, I was the fairy, the ballerina, and that kind of thing originally, and then I played Dorothy the Dinosaur and I was a Wiggles dancer.
Seeing ‘Revelations’ made me want to be a professional dancer.
Absolutely, I’ll always be a dancer.
I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it’s just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
I think if you are going to be a singer, you should sing. If you are going to be a dancer, you should dance. If you are going to do a combination of the two, you should make it very clear when you are singing and very clear when you are dancing.
I’m a hip-hop dancer, but when I’m in my room it turns into this lyrical nonsense, and I listen to Phil Wickham and India Arie, who has the most precious songs.
I was always the best actor and best dancer in my college.
I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.
If you want a dancer’s body, dance. Dance aerobics is my favourite cardio. It’s very frustrating if people think you have to become a dancer to do it – you don’t.
The orthopaedic surgeon said that if ever I had hip or groin pain, I should rest until the pain went. However, resting is not part of a dancer’s life – so I just danced through the pain.
I trained as a ballet dancer till I was 18, so I would really like to get back to it. I’d love it if there was a part that meant I could do both acting and ballet, as they’re both so close to my heart.
It’s an unfortunate reality of being a male dancer that it’s not really looked upon… it’s not appreciated.
I was a dancer and performer.
From the ages of 5 to 17, I was a competitive dancer. I even went to an arts high school and double-majored in dance and theatre.
I was a good dancer from my school days, and that’s why I entered reality shows.
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.
The drinker is a Dionysiac, a dancer who sits still, a mocker. He doesn’t need your seriousness or your regard. He just needs a little quiet music and a gentle freedom from priests.
I am realizing and accepting my role as a tap dancer in this world is not only to tap dance for the sake of performance, but through tap dance be able to share and spread a message and congregate with people I would not necessarily be with had it not been for dance.
I would imagine that if you could understand Morse code, a tap dancer would drive you crazy.
I always wanted to devote a certain part of my life to dance – my true being is to be a dancer.
I listen to all sorts of music, but I’m not musically talented. Everyone expects me to be a good singer or musician, but I really am terrible. I’m a great dancer, though.
I wouldn’t call myself a dancer. I would never even dance in a club – I can’t move my feet! I’m terribly shy about moving. I feel comfortable in my body, but dancing is like learning another language.
I’m a terrible dancer.
Certainly the life of a dancer is very difficult. The training is very hard and relentlessly grueling.
I’ve always loved working out. When I was little, my dad used to make me and my sister do 10 press-ups every day before we brushed our teeth in the morning. It was like a boot camp! Then I did a lot of athletics at school and was a dancer.
I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That’s up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer’s family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
I always wanted to make a pop record. I’m a dancer myself, so I want to make something that people listen to and just want to dance to.
I went to New York in 1974, to either try to get a record deal, get into the New York Art Student League, or be a dancer. So that was my plan. Some plan. And I had no money.
I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we’re much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it’s something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences.
From my personal experience, because I’m in a relationship, on paper I would never have imagined – I’m an Essex girl, maths geek who likes football, and I’ve ended up with a Russian ballroom dancer, and I guess the things you think are important, especially when you’re younger, turn out not to be.
In the 1960s, songs were an integral part of film narration. I have been fortunate to have had some of the best songs of the era picturised on me, some of which gave me an opportunity to use my skills as a dancer too.
I grew up in show business, so I always knew I was going to be a dancer or a performer. I knew that was my business.
I could have been a dancer. I just never got my shot at it.
Classical dancing has always been the stepping stone of every dancer’s life.
When I say I can see through clothes, sometimes I try to use it as an X-ray vision to look into the dancer and see who this dancer is right now, at this exact moment in time. I live inside them in a way.
I actually wanted to be an exotic dancer, but that didn’t work out so I thought I’d take on acting.
My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.
I was keen to become a dancer and was studying for it. Somehow, it did not work out and I joined theatre. I do not regret it.
