Yamini Krishnamurthy quotes

A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.
-- Yamini Krishnamurthy

#Dance #People #Going Out

A dancer must have tremendous personality. A God like Christ and even a godman like Rajneesh had some personality. Combination of talent, dedication, creativity and being emotive is imperative. A coupling of these four qualities with technique is essential. Monotony is deterrent as it regards your style and I notice today, that new dancers perform in a startlingly similar fashion.
-- Yamini Krishnamurthy

#Fashion #Creativity #Dedication

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

To make up a dance, I still need, as I needed then, a pot of tea, walking space, privacy and an idea.

Dancing is such a despised and dishonored trade that if you tell a doctor or a laywer you do choreography he'll look at you as if you were a hummingbird. Dancers don't get invited to visit people. It is assumed a boy dancer will run off with the spoons and a girl with the head of the house.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon.

I’m going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I’d never lip-synch. It’s just not me.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

I love going out and doing new things.

Going out is such a hassle. The singles club scene where you sit down, talk, get to know each other, hang out-it's such a big ordeal.