Pastoral Resources

I can't wait to be back on the dance floor. I feel really good about it.

My first vocation was dance.

I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

I have thought about the next steps, and you know, they still don't know that I can dance. They don't know it, and it's frustrating me because I feel that it's an edge that I have, and I'm not talking about I took this hip hop class, I'm talking about this is how people actually know me.

It's funny because a lot of people that know me as a dancer, don't know that I'm a singer, and a lot of people that know I can sing don't know I can dance. And so, I feel like at some point I have to show them both and really be able to display it and showcase it, and put that out there.

Dance is for everybody. I believe that the dance came from the people and that it should always be delivered back to the people.

If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's face it.

Until quite recently dance in America was the ragged Cinderella of the arts.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it.

I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I'm doing a dance track or something like the Russian album for example.

In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.

From my debut until now, I've always wanted to sing and dance.

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.

I've always wanted to introduce hip-hop filmmaking to film. There's hip-hop art, dance, music, but there really isn't hip-hop film. So I was trying to do that.

I have no desire to prove anything by dancing. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance. I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.