Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I look at the dancers and I get the inspiration for the work from them.
I used to teach dance lessons.
My mum and dad teach, and all my brothers and sisters have been in 'Riverdance' and so forth. So I was forced to become a dancer; it's part of my family history.
I was a dancer for many years. I was a premier dancer with 'Porgy and Bess,' the opera. And I taught dance some, in different places.
Modern dancers should be doing things no one else is doing, and it should come from the gut.
I always want to have more dancers in my company.
I was a professional dancer before I was an actor.
You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
When I was a dancer, I would see that dancers were treated like garbage. I mean like, like extras.
I grew up in dance studios. I was forced to be in several numbers in recitals and dance competitions. I took one tap class - literally one class - and then I quit.