Quotes About Teaching Dance

#1. I didn't take the typical path and go to college after high school. Instead, I saved up money from teaching dance classes and moved to L.A. But my family was so supportive - I never felt pressure from them. It's crucial to find a support system, even if it's not your family.

Dianna Agron

#2. If you love dance and you have the gift of teaching, teaching is super amazing and important because my teachers planted that seed in me. As a teacher you understand the difference or the definition of a Baryshnikov or a Gregory Hines, so teaching is really important and very necessary.

Laurieann Gibson

#3. Most of the teaching I do is not verbal. It's in every movement of my body. It's in my dance. It's in the way I lift a glass of water. It's in my voice tone. It's in every aspect of my life - because it isn't my life anymore.

Frederick Lenz

#4. With dance, it's about education. I'm teaching a lot. I teach the foundations of hip-hop.

Stephen Boss

#5. Training a dog, to me, is on a par with learning to dance with my wife or teaching my son to ski. These are fun things we do together. If anyone even talks about dominating the dog or hurting him or fighting him or punishing him, don't go there.

Ian Dunbar

#6. The more he smiled, the more I wanted to hate him, and yet it was the very thing that made hating him impossible.

Jamie McGuire

#7. Making a profit is no more the purpose of a corporation than getting enough to eat is the purpose of life. Getting enough to eat is a requirement of life; life's purpose, one would hope, is somewhat broader and more challenging. Likewise with business and profit.

Kenneth Mason

#8. We are supported by a universe that has no interest in hurting us, only in teaching us to dance

Martha N. Beck

#9. I had never picked up a basketball before. I went through a grueling audition process. It was almost as if I was learning to walk. It would be like teaching somebody to dance ballet for a role.

Sanaa Lathan

#10. People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

Dave Chappelle

#11. Revitalizing General Motors is like teaching an elephant to tap dance. You find the sensitive spot and start poking.

Ross Perot

#12. I am adamant that we must not cut back on funding of the teaching of the arts in the schools: music, painting, theater, dance, all of it. The great thing about the arts is that the only way you learn how to do it is by doing it.

David McCullough

#13. Well, if I came any earlier, I would have missed the nudie-show. Thank goodness for good timing.

Ashlan Thomas

#14. One of the more surreal days I've ever had in the recording studio was Martin Fry teaching Hugh Grant his old dance moves. Showing him how to do the hair-flip and the point, and all these sort of trademark moves of his.

Adam Schlesinger

#15. Once, Nina had pretended to be Dominic teaching a dance session. I don't like your feet, your legs, your shoulders and your head. Just cut them all off!

Jean Kwok

#16. To invent something is to find it in what previously exists.

Brian Arthur

#17. The girls were riveted by Georgia's lecture on the importance of sports bras and the dangers of the uni-boob, double busting, slippage, unsightly bulges, and my personal favorite, head lighting. I thought she made valid points and I would never have guessed that bouncing boobs were so problematic.

Ashlan Thomas

#18. I used to say I didn't want to teach. I was still excited about dancing. It's hard to do both. It's as exhausting teaching as it is to dance.

Patricia McBride