Judith Jamison Quotes

Dancing is a gift. You are supposed to do it; it’s like breathing.

Dance is not endangered – it will always find a way to express itself.

It’s a real gift to have a husband and wife in the company that love each other and that work together. They check on each other emotionally and physically. That’s beautiful to me.

I’ve danced all over the world, and people are people. We cannot cut off from each other in life. In order to lead, you can’t do that.

Once you’ve danced, you always dance. You can’t deny the gifts that God sends your way

Learn the craft of knowing how to open your heart and to turn on your creativity. There’s a light inside of you.

Dancing is being trusted with other people’s guts; choreographing is trusting other people with yours. When I choreograph I’m giving a dancer something to do and trusting the dancer to do it and build on it.

Dance is bigger than the physical body. When you extend your arm, it doesn’t stop at the end of your fingers, because you’re dancing bigger than that; you’re dancing spirit.

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

The first time I started choreographing was in the dark, in my living room, with the lights completely out, to some popular music on the radio. I put the radio on full blast and I started moving. I didn’t know what it looked like. I didn’t want to see it… I had to start in the dark.

I believe in spirit and then I believe a manifestation of spirit is dance

Every dancer lives on the threshold of chucking it.