Judith Jamison

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

“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.”

“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?”

“If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.”