Top 112 Choreographer Quotes & Sayings

I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.

Become the director, producer, choreographer of your own story

I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'

While dancing for me was fun, becoming a choreographer was not something I wanted to do.

If I weren't an actor today, I would have been a choreographer for sure.

A young choreographer often gets hung up on thinking they have to have all the answers. As a choreographer ages, they realize that they're more of a steward to movement. We mold movement and curate and form it into plausible and understandable stories.

You always want to please your choreographer, director. Dancers are just that way.

A painter is a choreographer of space.

I have fully retired as a choreographer. I do not have the patience now to make actors learn their steps. For me, that ship has sailed. I have enjoyed 22 years of it.

When preparing for a concert, I do lots of training. I work with a choreographer to create great moves and then I have to keep my voice strong with lessons.

It's probably what I'm most interested in as a choreographer: how I can alter and shift and develop the structure of a piece and of the space.

I enjoy being a choreographer.

Had I not been a choreographer, I would have become nothing more than a traffic cop or peon in an office.

The choreographer and the dancer must remember?that they reach the audience through the eye.?It's the illusion created which convinces the audience,?much as it is with the work of a magician.

I'm heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with 'Glee' and then practice with LXD till about midnight.

I have always seen myself as a choreographer first and foremost.

Now I want to become an artist, rather than one thing, like a dancer, or a movie star, or a choreographer.

From my experience as an actor, choreographer, action director, and producer, I understand the elements and the dynamics of being a film maker.

George Balanchine is my role model because his work is so varied. You can see two ballets of his and not even realize that they are by the same choreographer.

Growing up, I was a dancer. I wanted to be a choreographer.

I feel such a difference between a philologist/linguist and a linguaphile as, say, a choreographer and a ballerina.

The heads of the studios, like Louis B. Mayer, didn't want to create any more musical stars. So Bobby [Fosse] left and went to New York City to be a choreographer, and created brilliant work.

I work as a dancer, but I also work as a choreographer with couples that have a lot of tension between them, and as dancer and as a choreographer, being in this situation is very difficult. You see the energy doesn't flow, and it's very tense.

I get into the studio and I try to make visible what's in the choreographer's mind. Sometimes a choreographer wants you to have an idea, and sometimes you are the idea.

It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.

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.

Wayne McGregor's 'Dyad 1929' is a good example of this capable British choreographer's work.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

I'm not a good choreographer: I can't remember what I put down.

Even after choreographing some big numbers, I didn't qualify as the top choreographer. You need to have godfathers and big people to support you for others to take you seriously.

When I was building my career as a choreographer, acting just happened.

My own physicality, not an abstract idea, makes me a choreographer.

While I love dancing, and even acting in 'ABCD' - 'Anybody Can Dance' - was fun, I remain, at heart, a choreographer.

On my 'Mickey' video, I was the director, producer, choreographer, editor, singer - everything.

I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.

'The Madison' we three weeks rehearsed in a nightclub. Brasseur and Frey didn't know how to dance. A choreographer had to teach us how to do the steps.

I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.

I have two best friends - the dancer and choreographer Bobby Newberry and my former bandmate Kimberley Wyatt.

Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.

I want to really stress this, I am a director, an actor, producer, action choreographer, and I'm also an investor.

I was a choreographer in the '80s and I was doing these videos. I did an Extreme video, which was really weird having them here. I did "Get the Funk Out".

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

You open a section of 'The New York Times,' and there's a review or a story on a choreographer or a dancer, and there's an informative, clear image of a dancer. This is, in my view, not an interesting photograph.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

When I became a choreographer, I was not assisting any choreographer. I was assisting the director Mansoor Ali Khan for 'Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar.' I was the fourth assistant director.

A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderful thing on 'Brotherhood of the Wolf' was that we had Philip Kwok - he choreographed John Woo's 'Hard Boiled,' and in the '70s, he was a martial arts actor, stunt man, fighter, choreographer in Hong Kong.

To kill time, I went to learn dance and there I met my to-be wife. She is a choreographer.

As much as I love to travel and be on stage and perform, I knew at a very young age that I wanted to be a choreographer and a director.

I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability to figure out people's rhythms. It all starts from the script.

A director is a choreographer, both politically and creatively.

I am just a choreographer, and I am trying to make productions, not dance concerts.

I used to do semi-classical dance as a child; I did not have a choreographer, but my mother gave me a cassette to learn from.

The choreographer for the Milton Berle show wanted me to audition. I walked away from that.

It was not like I planned even to be a choreographer. It just happened to me somehow.

The thing is that when you are a director, you need to be involved in a lot of different fields. You must be a psychologist, an architecture expert; you must be a choreographer.

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'm a choreographer and a director, and I have no ambition beyond that.

You know when this guy explains the essence of dance to his students he isn’t faking it. But it’s when the choreographer-dancer’s takes the floor that we’re really floored. When Prabhu dances time freezes.

My mother was a choreographer, so music has always been around.

Martin Joyce is a beautiful dancer and an amazing choreographer. He choreographed the Mulberry dance film I was in, 'From London with Love.' A truly talented man.