Robert Battle Quotes

Performing abroad is ambassadorial.

I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking.

I studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before moving on to Miami's New World School of the Arts, and from there, I went on to study at The Juilliard School.

Seeing 'Revelations' made me want to be a professional dancer.

I grew up in a very spiritual home in a Liberty City neighborhood of Miami, FL. I was raised in the church, and my mother was a very inspirational person in my life.

I wanted to be an Ailey dancer. I would watch Alvin Ailey videos over and over, and I'd picture myself doing that. I was obsessed with it.

I believe dance is a manifestation and celebration of the tenacity of the human spirit

There's a part of me that never felt my mother abandoned me. I always felt that she did the right thing.

I never expected to go to Juilliard. When they came recruiting in Miami, I auditioned. I got a scholarship.