You want a great product, you want things that resonate with people and make them dance.
Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country’s heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone… Otherwise, it wouldn’t work.
So many people think of me as a character on TV, but first and foremost, my passion is teaching dance and creating employable, working dancers.
I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.
The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.
I learned how to dance. I got a free spray tan. My life is good!
Y’know, smile, dance, get crazy… we sure do while we’re making it, because music is our leeezshure; it’s my fun.
Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking for an alternative world to escape into. Dance offered him a display in which he could find, after much searching, certain human secrets.
When I’m traveling, I always look for a dance studio. It’s a great workout and a wonderful way to meet new friends in the community.
I really have to dance more often, and so I travel around. If I don’t, I will crumble.
The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn’t dance, they listened.
Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.
I must confess I knew very little about the trance scene, I’m more house and commercial dance but it was really interesting and different.
One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I’ll do it alone in my apartment. You can’t have a bad day after that.
The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.
All of us kids ended up ‘doing Mom.’ There are four of us who’ve tried show business. Five if you insist on counting my sister the nun, who does liturgical dance.
Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.
I am so not a proper, good female. I can’t dance in high heels and I’m just so not girly, but then I see these men with these banging bodies, dancing in heels, singing, and having so much fun with so much make-up on. That makes me honestly want to be a better woman.
I like music and I like ladies. I like to see them dance.
When the circumstances are right, everything becomes a dance.
I was always an introvert as a kid. Then, when I first kind of came out as a human being, I used to be one of those guys who’d go nuts on the dance floor, and people would gather around.
Whether I do an original film, a dance, or a remake of my dad’s hit songs, I have always been compared to him.
Dance kind of was always just a part of my natural state as a child. It’s something that, whenever music was playing, I was dancing.
There probably aren’t a lot of actors my age who tap dance.
I went to Westside School of Ballet in L.A. and I was climbing through the ranks. Then I got to pointe shoes and I was like, ‘This is not cool, you guys. This is gonna be in textbooks, someday, along with Chinese foot-binding.’ Anyway, it’s not for me, so I got into doing different kinds of dance.
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.
I think one thing you could probably say for all my albums is that they’re all pretty eclectic pop. There’s always a little bit of urban influence, some dance, a little bit of country, singer-songwriter, pop-rock. I like everything! On every album you can find that.
The Parisian has his amusements as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.
Sometimes I dance for concentration. I dance to release my nervousness.
I work out a lot and I do yoga and I do Pilates and I’m kind of athletic. I’ve taken dance classes, but at the same point I’m just a total klutz.
I wasn’t a ballet baby. My first dance class was in an outdoor pavilion when I was three. It was called ‘creative movement.’ The teacher gave us chiffon scarves in beautiful colors. She turned on some music and said, ‘Now go dance.’ So for me, dance has always been about self-expression.
They’re not particular about whether you’re playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.
Strictly is the master of all dance programmes. It’s so big!
There’s just something about dance. It’s like a primal thing in all of us.
I can’t remember the exact age, but I do remember being very young when I started to dance and listen to music.
In ballet a complicated story is impossible to tell… we can’t dance synonyms.
When people give me the choice to either sing or dance, I’d rather dance than sing.
I should be on Broadway. You have to sing, you have to dance, you have to speak well, and I’m good at all of those!
An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.
I like to dance and sing when there’s no one around, but, if I’m out, I’m really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That’s something obviously that The Beatles started and… so having that darkness there opens another door.
When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.
We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
I learned to appreciate repetition. That’s why I can dance. It’s how I learned to act. I have a high tolerance for repetition.
If nobody comes to your shows, then it’s modern dance. If everybody comes to your shows and no one likes it, is that ballet? I don’t know.
I go with the flow. Whatever music you play for me, I’ll dance.
When you do ‘Strictly,’ you’re kind of restricted. You have to dance for 90 seconds, you have to choreograph for your partner.
In dance you use every party of your body except your voice. I wanted to start acting because I wanted to use my voice.
Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.
My mom thought I could dance because I used to dance to this Janet Jackson song she’d play when I was a baby. Then she would take me to a Saturday dance school. I used to go every week and got spotted by a scout, who suggested I audition for the role of Billy in ‘Billy Elliot the Musical.’
The dance world is too small in lots of ways – it’s too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas.
I don’t do well with snakes and I can’t dance.
People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn’t be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don’t have families. They don’t clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
In our house, everybody is always dancing around and singing. We have a dance floor outside at our house, a big, huge dance floor that we all dance on.
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.
I focus on having a feminine body, a dancer’s body. I do resistance and dance and cardio. I like hiking, swimming, being active. It clears your mind and it’s a good way to decompress.
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane’s Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
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.
I have periods where I listen to regular rap, Jay-Z, Eminem and Lil Wayne. The next day I might have some Christian alternative music. The next day I have on some dance music. It all varies what I listen to.
Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
