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“That's certainly what I grew up with-ballet and musical comedy. My mother taught ballroom dancing and, I think, would have liked to have been a dancer herself. So she pushed me a lot when I was very young, but I loved it. All I really wanted to be was a dancer. There's a discipline in dance that you don't get anywhere else.” (Verdon Gwen)
Knock me down, I'll go right into the ground, but I keep coming back up. And when I break through that ground I'm singing and dancing. (Verdon Gwen)
“All I wanted to do was make a dance record. Not even that — a stupid dance record.” (Verdon Gwen)
“Dance is definitely what I love doing much more than anything else.” (Verdon Gwen)
I really didn't know how to be cool. I studied ballet from the age of 7 to 14, but I wasn't a quick study. I felt so self-conscious. I was taller than everyone by a foot. (Verdon Gwen)
I adore dancing. (Verdon Gwen)
Yes, it actually has. But ultimately, what I've been doing is simply allowing soul to represent me. We just played the Paradiso in Amsterdam, and I gotta tell you, the whole place was dancing all night. I really don't like seated concerts. (Verdon Gwen)
I started dancing when I was 3, Scottish dancing. All my childhood memories were dancing like six days a week. I remember begging my mum to do ballet dancing because I did jazz and tap and then I wanted to start ballet. (Verdon Gwen)
Actually I dance really well on the floor. (Verdon Gwen)
I started taking ballet lessons when I was three and a half and I still take dance classes. (Verdon Gwen)
We were doing the dance routine and I dislocated my knee. I've been doing stunts for a long time and it's kind of weird that I'd dislocate my knee just dancing. (Verdon Gwen)
“If anyone ever saw me dance. THey'd have trouble taking me seriously.” (Verdon Gwen)
“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn't catch on right away - but I had some good mentors in New York who encouraged me.” (Verdon Gwen)
I wanted to dance. I grew up in a small town about 40 miles outside London, but it was a fairly cosmopolitan household. (Verdon Gwen)
I watched a lot of pole dancing and some rather interesting duo acts to get the moves we had to use in the film. (Verdon Gwen)
The actual cheerleaders in our film are all Broadway dancers. (Verdon Gwen)
The other girls were so comfortable with their bodies and it eventually rubbed off on me. (Verdon Gwen)
“The fairies break their dances / And leave the printed lawn.” (Verdon Gwen)
Dance is the hidden language of the soul of the body. (Verdon Gwen)
Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart. (Verdon Gwen)
I did not want to be a tree, a flower or a wave. In a dancer’s body, we as audience must see ourselves, not the imitated behavior of everyday actions, not the phenomenon of nature, not exotic creatures from another planet, but something of a miracle. (Verdon Gwen)
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