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I preach freedom of the mind through freedom of the body; women, for example - out of the prison of corsets.
My dance classes were open to anybody, my only stipulation was that they had to come to the class every day.
If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.
I don't really care what the visual is looking like. I've gotten away from - not shenanigans, but spectacle.
I have a sort of tactility about music. I go into record stores and just run my fingers over it, the spines.
I had to become the greatest choreographer of my time. That was my mission, and that's what I set out to do.
There is no other occupation in the world that so closely resembled enslavement as the career of a film star.
It can be easy to buy into anything. I would lose focus if I went with that attitude of wanting to be famous.
I was valedictorian. Did I enjoy going to school? I hated it. It wasn't a choice on my part, it was expected.
So many years later, you watch yourself, and you're not critical of yourself anymore 'cause that's behind you.
I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.
Other dances are like languages, like French or Spanish, but my steps are slang, and slang is always changing.
I used to think I could save tap. But tap was here way before I was, and it's going to be here after I'm gone.
The body is living art. Your movement through time and space is art. A painter has brushes. You have your body.
I don't need that much to live - we don't need that much to have a wonderful life. I learned that from animals.
It has always been important to me to be a creative artist, not to be a star, not to be rich, not to be famous.
I don't regret 'West Side Story' one bit. It was an incredible movie full of young people with amazing rapport.
I'm moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother's eyes, the beauty of my father's hands.
I was a protege; by the age of 10, I was studying with ballet choreographer Anthony Tudor in a class of adults.
It is upon the length and breadth and span of a body sustained in muscular action that dance invokes its image.
I had a recording contract with Capitol Records. I loved recording and being in that studio. I made four albums.
I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.
Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There's a light inside of you.
I enjoy the element of pushing yourself, learning something new, whether it's a dance step, a scene, an emotion.
I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept anything without wishing I had given it away.
It's exciting to, uh, it's very exciting to know that doors have a possibility of opening to certain situations.
When I was a kid, the avant-garde to me was boring because it was just the flip side of being really successful.
These people seemed so enwrapped in snobbishness and the glory of being rich that they had no art sense whatever.
I had discovered that love might be a pastime as well as a tragedy, and I gave myself to it with pagan innocence.
all that time hanging around the sets, watching Norma Shearer make the most of her three expressions, was a help.
A violinist had a violin, a painter his palette. All I had was myself. I was the instrument that I must care for.
Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?
Before I go to bed, I brush my teeth and take off all my makeup. I like to use Neutrogena's makeup remover wipes.
I usually get home from dance at 10 every night, and I'll watch TV for about 30 minutes, and then I'll go to bed.
I realized early on, I'm more interested in Baryshnikov than some dancer who wants to do a rock show with ballet.
You can keep on chewing gum for ten hours, but after about a minute and a half you've got all the good out of it.
Some people seem to think that good dancers are born, but all the good dancers I have known are taught or trained.
With parents, that's the only way sometimes that they can get across to their kids is by giving them an ultimatum.
Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing, yes.
I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style.
When I'm off the clock, I usually play video games - or do something nature-y so I can contribute to Mother Nature.
I don't want to be known as just a 'Dance Moms' competitor. I'd really like to be known for all of Sia's work, too.
I used to go play football matches in the morning, and Id go straight from me football game to a dance competition.
My parents just tell me, ‘If you know what you want, you should stay determined and go for it. You can do anything.’
I went to an audition for a Harry Belafonte Roaring Twenties special for choreographer Donald McKayle, but I failed.
I go for a nice walk in my neighborhood and search for vinyl, old jazz, classics. Then I go home and listen to them.
I used to go play football matches in the morning, and I'd go straight from me football game to a dance competition.
Im a perfectionist and, when it comes to people I want to work with, I have changed my mind, like, millions of times.
I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.