Back in medieval times, Victorian repression hadn’t come in yet. People were bawdy and wild and more in touch with their true natures. If you look at the Bosch paintings or Bruegel, you see, when people are dancing, they’re totally cutting loose.
Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
When I first joined ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I did not want to do it. It’s not what I like, it’s not what I believe in… the judges are fake, this is fake, that is fake… there is not a lot of reality.
I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, ‘My God, you are the girl off the dancing horse.’ They have got no idea about dressage, and they said, ‘I can’t work out whether you make the horse do that or the horse does it itself – we just couldn’t tell – but it brought tears to our eyes.’
I would love to learn how to dance. I can pick up choreography pretty well. But when you’re dancing with your friends, I can’t do that. I’m not a freestyler. It just doesn’t come naturally to me. Clapping is my go-to dance.
Don’t get me wrong – I’ve gone to a club. But I’d much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I’ll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!
I really fell in love with the art of making clothes when I was dancing on tour. Creating my stage image through clothes was a blast. I discovered a total sense for what cool chicks and rockin’ dudes like to wear. Total Skull is for those people. People that like to rock – total rock.
On the videos for ‘1234’ and ‘My Moon My Man’ I wanted to make the songs visible. And, really, what way can you make sound visible other than good old naive dancing? I was working with a choreographer, but I’m not a dancer. Any notion of elegance is impossible with me.
I’m proud of my Irish heritage and culture and this show will feature a lot of Irish dancing.
I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
I started out as a dancer as a kid; I’ve been dancing since I was 4. So, performing was always part of what I was. I don’t know if it I enjoyed the response I got from people or if I liked having an audience, but there’s something in me that wanted to perform.
In ice dancing, you cannot decide your result. You just have to do your best, and you can’t decide if you win or not.
With ‘Dance Moms’ in L.A., we film on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. When we film in Pittsburgh, we film the same days, but we still dance in our studio when we’re not filming, so I’m dancing every day except Sunday.
As I have said before, dancing is for anyone, but not for everyone.
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I’ve done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.
Black people dance well because we start early – there’s music being played everywhere. White people? They don’t start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it’s too late; the bottom don’t move with the top no matter how hard they try.
I always had an inferiority complex, like I wasn’t good enough. I was shy. But dancing gave me so much joy, and I was good at it. I felt like a whole person because I could dance.
I’ve completely changed the way I eat since doing ‘Dancing With The Stars.’
As soon as I started dancing at 14, I knew I was always going to be a professional dancer.
Sometimes it gets a little too bubblegum for me, but what I do love about KPop videos is their attention to detail, and their choreography and dancing are always spot-on.
I’ve always tried to come up with funny dancing since I was young, to attract girls’ attention for one thing. It’s got to be funny. I can’t pull it off with serious dances. That’s not me.
As a dancing violinist, there have been a couple of moments where I’m like, ‘Oops! This is an expensive mistake!’
My uncle Shawn used to stay with us when we were really young, and I used to come downstairs and see him break dancing on this piece of a cardboard. I probably always thought they were cool since then. I never knew his comedy, but I used to always see him break dancing. And he was terrible at it.
I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.
My ballroom dancing skills are completely non-existent.
Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness.
I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in ‘Dirty Dancing’ – these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it’s great that everyone on ‘Glee’ is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.
Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.
I would love to be in ‘Dancing With the Stars.’
I love being onstage, whether it’s dancing or acting – there’s just something about being onstage.
My first mentor and inspiration was my Irish Dancing teacher Patricia Mulholland. She created her own form of dance known as Irish ballet and created stage productions of old Irish myths and legends. They were my first experiences on stage. She told my mum I was destined for the stage, and I took that as my cue.
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
I missed my youth because I was dancing, I didn’t do all the crazy stuff. I didn’t have boyfriends or anything – the first man I met I married!
I’ve aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
I tell people ‘America’s Got Talent’ is the best summer job you could have – you get to watch people strive for their dreams all summer long. So when you see me rooting for these people or dancing on the side of the stage, that’s what I’d be doing if I was watching this show at home!
In my house every Sunday, everybody was cleaning the house. There was always music, and everybody was dancing, sometimes naked, around the house. Not hippie, but very free.
I don’t want to be on ‘Dancing With the Stars’ anytime soon.
I love dancing, and I always have.
I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I’ve never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables.
Dancing is like riding a bike.
So many dancers paint. I used to paint. I started again recently. While I was dancing, I was very busy with my career. Start something else that makes use of your creative ability because if you don’t you will die inside as a person.
‘LazyTown’ is basically about motivation. So what do I call motivation? I call it ‘go.’ The show is going to inspire kids to go. Go fishing. Go dancing. Go live.
I really feel confident about my dancing now, so I hope there could be a place for me in the West End or on Broadway – maybe a musical, maybe my own show.
Point a light at me, and I’ll start tap dancing.
Finding ballet gave me passion for the first time in my life. I was always very shy and just wanted to fit in; I never daydreamed about what I wanted to be when I grew up. But dancing gave me a connection to my personality that made me grow.
I know I always say my occupation is not dancing, but dancing is in my heart, dancing makes me feel good.
I became a dancer in self-defense. I was doing a comedy monologue and didn’t know how else to get off, so I danced off. I’ve been dancing ever since, but I’m still a comedian.
Sometimes I’ll watch a music video of a great performer like Beyonce and try to follow her choreography. Yeah, maybe I look ridiculous, but dancing gets your energy up a lot better than running on a treadmill or pedaling a stationary bike.
Sometimes I get a little confused because with dancing I can express my emotions with my body. With acting you have to do it with your face and your expressions, and then with animated shows you have to use your voice and use your inflections. So it’s definitely a challenge to transfer from each genre of entertainment.
I love the old Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly movies; they’re so beautiful to look at. It’s such a shame we don’t make them anymore. Although, I don’t know how you could make tap dancing current and topical.
I did everything – swimming, dancing, and badminton as well as tennis. It was always tennis that I really loved, though.
Every Friday we’d do a final practice ‘walk-through’ for the game, and I just remember we were always out on the field dancing and singing together.
I used to break dance. I can do some good James Brown footwork. But now I think I’ve danced too much. My girlfriend made fun of me: ‘Enough with the dancing.’
I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I’ve been what others wanted – in dancing and in life. Now I’m doing it my way.
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet’s curtain calls is the Royal Ballet’s dancing.
Dancing for the length of time that I did, it centered me in such a way to be really in tune with my body, and I just feel like I’m physically able to do things because of my ballet background. Without ballet, I don’t think I’d look graceful at all on screen.
