Top 100 Quotes About Choreography
#1. I had always choreographed a little, beginning in high school. And I leaned toward choreography. I always had an overview of what was going on.
Patricia Birch
#2. Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.
Agnes De Mille
#3. 'The Company' was interesting. I didn't love it, although it might be compelling to someone who isn't a dancer. There wasn't a lot of dialogue, and you were just kind of observing the creative process of choreography and in class.
Misty Copeland
#4. Basically it starts with four months of training, just basic stretching, kicking and punching. Then you come to the choreography and getting ready to put the dance together.
Keanu Reeves
#5. I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.
Jason Moore
#6. Fighting is kind of like choreography. It's not just get in there and punching someone: you have to have choreography. Someone is going to hit high; someone is going to hit at the bottom.
Emeraude Toubia
#7. I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.
Tommy Tune
#8. Chaos comes before all principles of order & entropy, it's neither a god nor a maggot, its idiotic desires encompass & define every possible choreography, all meaningless aethers & phlogistons: its masks are crystallizations of its own facelessness, like clouds.
Hakim Bey
#9. I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography.
David Carradine
#10. I have always loved contemporary dance, but it has always been a bit of a mystery to me. But choreography is very much like what I do when you are putting characters in frame on the page. It's so impressive what they do with their bodies. It's like painting: an abstraction.
Michael Leunig
#11. I learnt a lot from my Broadway experience, it was one of the most challenging things I will probably ever have to do in my entire life, because it was eight shows a week - live singing with really hard choreography - and the spontaneity, you don't know what's going to happen.
Ariana Grande
#12. My high school musical did not offer a shirtless Zac Efron but it did provide me with many lessons. I learned that I loved being in a theatre, attending rehearsals, and building sets. I loved listening to the director and groaning about rehearsing choreography
Amy Poehler
#13. When you shoot a musical, you're shooting to lipsynch tracks, so we had to figure out our choreography and work out what we wanted to do with each number before we did it.
Norman Jewison
#14. My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid.
Ksenia Solo
#15. My dancers expect me to deliver because my choreography represents their livelihood.
Twyla Tharp
#16. If I wanted to do clothes or if I wanted to make a building or design a choreography, you are able to do that - they are all under a similar kind of design umbrella.
Zaha Hadid
#17. 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
#18. I love getting to work with the stunt coordinator. It's like choreography, like a dance.
Jessica Stroup
#19. I can always invent movement, and sometimes it can be fitted into the right place, but that is not choreography. It is the music that dictates the whole shape of the work. I do not believe in the permanence of anything in ballet save the purely classical.
George Balanchine
#20. I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
Patricia McBride
#21. Stronach's fragile beauty belies an emotional strength, pragmatic resiliency, and intellectual courage. Her ideas and choreography are both enigmatic and playful.
Tami Stronach
#22. 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.'
Catherine Zeta-Jones
#23. The chance to work on Broadway choreography as opposed to having to deliver Broadway choreography can be two distinct things.
Damian Woetzel
#24. I like writing melody without an instrument. It's just so - it's more like the choreography of a bee; you just go.
Tom Waits
#25. While filming 'The Matrix,' we studied how a Chinese fight-choreography team trains actors before production starts so that they can participate in action sequences in a more dynamic way.
David Leitch
#26. I've done a lot of Samurai film in Japan, and sometimes done the choreography by myself.
Hiroyuki Sanada
#27. 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.
Katherine Dunham
#28. Sometimes I go and I'll look at people's comments and then responses, covers, choreography and fan videos and after a couple hours it's like, uhhh this is a little like ... I'm like don't indulge in right now.
Jhene Aiko
#29. You are not a female or a male - you are a dancer. And when I started going into choreography I became part of a team of people making movies. I wasn't a woman choreographer. I was a choreographer.
Anne Fletcher
#30. I watched 'Fame,' and I just love the choreography. It just gives me a place to be in another zone.
John Darnielle
#31. I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff.
Blake Shelton
#32. When Iron Man's flying, we'd send real planes up to do the choreography so that we'd get the camerawork to really look like a cameraman was following from another plane. It gives it that 'Top Gun' look.
Jon Favreau
#33. What makes the IoT a disruptive technology in the way we organize economic life is that it helps humanity reintegrate itself into the complex choreography of the biosphere, and by doing so, dramatically increases productivity without compromising the ecological relationships that govern the planet.
Jeremy Rifkin
#34. I am interested in the complicated choreography of close relationships.
Torill Kove
#35. Every actor has to move in a Terrence Malick film - that's the requirement. If you stop, he'll tell you, 'No, no, keep moving.' You can't be static. It's a choreography.
Olga Kurylenko
#36. TVXQ is our respected sunbae. Their vocal skills are strong, and we've studied much of their performances and choreography.
Taeyang
#37. It's so tiring. Even though I've worn heels and performed the choreography for four years now, I'm still not used to it. When will I be used to it? In 10 years? In 20 years?
Kim Hyo-yeon
#39. I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#40. Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra - not choreography to the audience.
George Szell
#41. I have been doing choreography my whole life, and it's so important to make that marriage between music and the body.
Dawn Angelique
#42. Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music.
Alvin Ailey
#43. 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
#44. I worked with the same trainer that worked with Denzel Washington in THe Hurricane. It was three months of training, five days a week, 4 to 5 hours a day. This was followed by a month of choreography.
Wentworth Miller
#45. I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
Mary Oliver
#46. Historically, the coupling of president and Speaker has been a tricky one that encourages a choreography both quick-footed and wary
Chris Matthews
#47. The round-up is an aggressive tradition. I'm trying to objectively be a steward of the tradition and what it means in its choreography.
Sufjan Stevens
#48. 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.
Katherine Dunham
#49. I was in a play directed by my father, and I was doing a fight scene, and the choreography went haywire, and I flew backward over a chair and ripped my thumb all the way to my wrist and had to have surgery to sew up all the tendons in there.
Jeremy Piven
#50. There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography.
Chris Jericho
#51. I realize that once I stopped fighting the technical process of how to move my body, I made it choreography.
Sandra Bullock
#52. Astaire never thought of what he was doing as balletic, but Kelly was always trying to dance with women on points. And his choreography is so showy and flashy. He always looks self-satisfied to me.
Matthew Bourne
#53. 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.
Santigold
#54. Yes, Carl Vine stuck around. He's now number one composer for choreography.
Graeme Murphy
#55. I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
Mae Jemison
#56. For me, choreography is a process of physical thinking. It's very much in mind as well as in body.
Wayne McGregor
#57. At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.
Natalia Yurchenko
#58. The best seat in the house often depends on the ballet. For instance, much of the first act of 'The Nutcracker' is domestic and small scale, so it's great to sit up close. But the second act features elaborate scenery and choreography, which are better to observe from a distance.
Robert Gottlieb
#59. Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade.
Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.
Laini Taylor
#60. Then solar systems, galaxies, supernovas, infinite space itself will become elements of a final masterwork
a never-ending festival, a celestial amusement park in which every exploding star and spinning electron is part of the empyreal choreography.
Steven Millhauser
#61. Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.
David Hallberg
#62. I've always been athletic and a dancer, so I love doing fight choreography.
Katrina Law
#63. Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.
Benjamin Millepied
#64. Choreography is simpler than you think. Just go and do, and don't think so much about it. Just make something interesting.
George Balanchine
#65. When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography.
Iveta Cherneva
#66. The planet isn't improvising, it's creating dynamic tensions between complex living systems in a planetary choreography, a balancing act between physical, chemical, biological, environmental, and human components.
DJ Spooky
#67. I've spent a lot of time playing Bach partitas. One of my first jobs was to play for ballet and modern classes, so the music in 'Partita' is kind of like choreography for me.
Caroline Shaw
#68. The cabinets and shelves are a bright busy choreography of oils, shampoos, conditioners, scrubs, lotions, salts, unguents. Zinnia loves buying pots and bottles and tubes of alchemised essences that smell like yearning or intimacy on the skin.
Glenn Haybittle
#70. My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people.
Robert Wilson
#71. Good choreography fuses eye, ear and mind.
Arlene Croce
#72. I like vocal word stuff. But I don't always write with an instrument, I usually write a capella. It's more like drawing in the air with your fingers. It's closest to the choreography of a bee. You're freer.
Tom Waits
#73. 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.
Paula Abdul
#74. Choreography is writing on your feet.
Bob Fosse
#75. War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
Adrien Brody
#76. I am absolutely desperate to do an action movie. And not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I actually think I'm good at it. I did it all. I was really into the routines and the choreography. I used to dance when I was younger, and so I think that came in handy.
Lily James
#77. I couldn't pick up a sword and go fight anyone, let me put it that way. It's choreography and it's acting. The best sword fights you see look amazing, but it's the acting that sells it more than anything.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
#78. My choreography suits men very well, and the women who can do it are damn hard, strong dancers.
Paula Abdul
#79. When you're doing an action set piece, it's very similar to choreography in a way because it's shot that way. It's meticulous how it's rehearsed. I mean, you have no idea.
Rob Marshall
#80. The evolution of Parkour sort of happens with time and age as you change, and the body has a certain memory of Parkour. There is a sort of thing that remains intrinsic, but then the choreography will adapt to whatever the necessity of each particular film needs.
David Belle
#81. I said, 'I'll give myself two years. If I can't support myself as an actress within two years, then I'll go back to choreography.'
Khandi Alexander
#82. 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.
Vera Wang
#83. 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.
Christina Milian
#84. I'm not retired, I will continue directing films and doing fight choreography. I won't stop.
Yuen Woo-ping
#85. You'd have to go all the way back to 1972 to find a version of me who didn't care about theater, who didn't read Playbill and watch the Tony Awards, or get why Bob Fosse's choreography was so groundbreaking that all you need to say is 'Fosse hands' and theater people know what you mean.
Jean Hanff Korelitz
#86. Dance has helped me with everything. It was a great foundation for discipline, hard work and, unfortunately, the ever-elusive idea of perfection. It lends itself easily to fight choreography, because that's what it really is. Choreography. And knowing how to move with someone.
Keri Russell
#87. I think of writing
particularly of writing picture books
as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.
Beatrice Schenk De Regniers
#88. I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you're dancing with your friends, I can't do that. I'm not a freestyler. It just doesn't come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
Olivia Holt
#89. When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
LaToya Jackson
#90. I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
Lou Reed
#91. When preparing for the fight choreography, the first thing I have to think about is what fits in the script. Whatever goes along with the story line and the character's personality; they have to be matched.
Yuen Woo-ping
#92. A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.
Jennifer Dunning
#93. I wish I could blame it on the choreography, but it's not a musical. I just had a clumsy moment.
Delta Burke
#94. I believe that friendship, like love, of which it is a particular kind, requires nearly as much art as a successful choreography.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#95. It was so much more. You allowed your feelings to spill onto the stage in a way everyone in that room could relate to. Angela inspired it, perhaps, but the specifics you chose made a universal statement. That is the art of choreography.
Kathryn Craft
#96. And Toronto's own Sergio Trujillo has redone his choreography totally, showing all the comical invention that we know he's capable of.
Richard Ouzounian
#97. I tell my workshop students, 'I want you to think of yourselves as artists. Then, when you're writing, you're painting, you're crafting, you're making a design, you're sculpting, you're creating choreography, sound, a sound script.'
Juan Felipe Herrera
#98. I tell stories through dance, and I think that's why I'm so attracted to the theatre because even the choreography in theatre moves the plot forward at all times.
Susan Stroman
#99. You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.
Allan Sherman
#100. Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.
Rob Marshall
