As much as I love to dance, and I still take class, aerobics and that sort of thing, and I still move very well and all of that - I'm really not a dancer anymore.
Sometimes when I'm dancing and don't put in enough hairspray, I wind up looking like a... what's the animal with needles? Porcupine.
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.
When I first moved to L.A. as a dancer, all I wanted to do was dance. I never even considered trying to act or direct.
I was in eighth grade when I did my first Junior Theatre show. I was in 'Annie Get Your Gun' as a dancing Indian.
As she sustained wound after wound...the fairy should have fallen, but instead, she danced. This was Titania, the Fairy Queen.
Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.
When you use the power of empathy, love and kindness to heal the humanity, it dances with joy, gratitude, and humility.
How I long to fall just a little bit, to dance out of the lines and stray from the light.
An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.
I attended Professional Children's School in Manhattan because my ballet and modern dance schedules were intensive and had started to interfere with regular school hours.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.
I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
My only way of getting my uncles' attention or aunts' attention or whoever's attention was by dancing and singing around the house.
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing.
I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.
Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.
As a dancer, I'd dance with broken toes. Just like acting, you compete with yourself and drive forward. That discipline helped in Hollywood.
