89 Quotes by Judith Jamison

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

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

So many people dwell on negativity and I’ve survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it’s harder each time to turn the power up again.

You don’t enter a dance studio and say “I can’t do that.” If you do, then why are you in the studio in the first place?

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn’t work for everybody. It’s the lifestyle, it’s the stamina, it’s the love, it’s the dedication, it’s the commitment, it’s all those words.

I’m moved by contraries, by opposites, the strength that was my mother’s eyes, the beauty of my father’s hands.

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.

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

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.