I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. ‘Anna Karenina’ was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.
You have to be aware. Like, I’m not going to do any downhill skiing. It looks like a whole lot of fun, but I’m not going to risk breaking a leg. I want to be dancing the way I’m dancing now for 30 more years.
The thing about dancing – what it taught me all those years – is it gives you an amazing sense of discipline in forcing yourself to do things that you know are good for you but you don’t really want to do.
‘More & More’ is animated, full of confidence, even cute; in contrast, the dancing is incredibly powerful and energetic.
When I signed up for ‘Dancing with the Stars,’ I was nervous. If I threw everything off, there are 10-15 million people watching, and that would be a negative viewpoint of deaf people, and I didn’t want that.
I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Apparel and then got cast in the Yeezus tour. Vanessa Beecroft did the creative direction, and they hired three American Apparel models and nine dancers – it wasn’t a lot of dancing; we were mostly just walking.
I sang with a voice that was natural, and I liked the way I produced that sound. I thought of my other friends, that they were singing and dancing, but they didn’t have this. I was special.
I started dancing when I was three, Scottish dancing.
You’re terrified that nothing will ever give you the fulfillment that dancing has given you.
Dancing is my number one love. That was my first goal as a child. I would love to do stage, maybe do Chicago. I love being in front of an audience. It’s so stimulating. I also love to barbecue.
I began to fear that the Graham work was not in lots of ways sufficient for me. I suppose it came about from looking at other dancing and being involved with the ballet – something about the air and the way she thought about dancing.
No, you will never see me on ‘Dancing With the Stars.’ Sorry.
I’m definitely happier dancing in Germany; in the U.S., there’s a different level of competition. I find in general that I try to get my voice heard about protecting women. It comes from everything I’ve been through personally – I’m opinionated, and that doesn’t make it that easy.
I’ve been invited to do ‘Dancing With the Stars’ three times, but Lifetime said no.
Dancing is just like racing. You don’t learn choreography. They just give you steps to do, and you do them over and over and over. It’s very much like what I do in racing.
Dancing was always part of my culture growing up in Barbados. When I shot my 1st video I worked really hard with my choreographer to perfect the routines.
Modern dancing is old fashioned.
Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.
When I was a kid, toe dancing and toe shoes had a meaning in our culture as a serious kind of art.
I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.
I might love dancing more than I should admit. But not in public.
I want to be able to talk about changing the world through your actions and being a generation that is aware and a force to be reckoned with – and at the same time be dancing.
If I see somebody dancing really well, it can make me want to dance. Or it could be the music. But perhaps the thing I miss the most is that when you’re dancing, everyday concerns vanish. It’s a unique world.
You don’t go dancing in the day. You don’t go golfing in the night.
It’s one of the reasons I want to do ‘Dancing with the Stars’: it’s a platform to educate.
I love to dance, and sing – in the shower, not in public. I’m too old to go raving, but my fondest memories are of that kind of thing – dancing, with lots of people, outside if possible.
Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.
On the screen were some flashback shots of Daniel, Emma and Rupert from ten years ago. They were 12. I have also recently returned from New York, and while I was there, I saw Daniel singing and dancing (brilliantly) on Broadway. A lifetime seems to have passed in minutes.
Learning ballroom dancing is great for your brain. But it only works for three to six months. After that, you’ve got all the benefit you can get, and so you have to move on to yoga, and then Tai Chi, and then bridge, always keeping on the steep part of the learning curve.
I love the rhythm of tap dancing. It’s sharp and quick. Plus, the sound is very appealing.
I don’t understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?
I wanted to be a professional dancer for a period of time, and I did a lot of dancing and choreography and got paid for it.
I would love to do a little ballroom dancing with my husband… He and I can take a couple classes together. It would be a lot of fun!
You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it’s not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it’s celebratory.
We can all relate at some level to being fascinated by looking at ourselves. You see it every time little kids walk into a store with surveillance and start dancing and waving at themselves.
The user’s going to pick dancing pigs over security every time.
Tap dancing and basketball started at the same time, and when I was eight, I just kind of made the decision that entertainment was really where I wanted to be.
I started dancing first, but felt I could also tell my story through my music.
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book, I’m not sure it would ever have found its way into print.
We get these overzealous young men and their girlfriends. It’s happened occasionally where one of them will lean up against the front of the stage and the guy is behind her, and it starts off as just dancing and then it gets into something more.
I was first introduced to dancing through the TV: I remember watching ballet, jazz and ballroom dancing when I was very little. But I felt no connection with it whatsoever: it was just like watching a Tom and Jerry cartoon.
I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It’s my opinion; obviously, there are billions who like and love them. I don’t like all the singing, dancing and all the dramatic crying. I have never seen a Bollywood film in my life.
I grew up idolising Madhuri Dixit, though I wasn’t a Hindi film buff. I had an academic upbringing, and movies were a rarity. I looked up to Madhuri because I loved dancing, and she’s a fantastic dancer.
Dancing is my therapy. I also try to meditate every morning and take several two-hour yoga classes a week at my favorite yoga studio, Urban Flow.
I’m not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.
I started dancing before I could talk. Other babies learn to stand and then walk – I just danced.
I know what I’m good at, and if I’m asked to do something I’m not – like hip-hop dancing – I get self-conscious.
I was completely with the reality TV boom for a while. I really liked a lot of the reality TV, and the one that lost me was the ballroom dancing one they do, ‘Dancing with the Stars.’ That was the one where I watched it and I was perplexed. I thought it was really boring.
Whatever I’m feeling, whatever I’m going through, whatever mood I’m in… If I’m feeling like dancing or clubbing, then it will be reflected in the music. If I’m feeling dark and vulnerable, then it will reflect in the music, too.
When I first moved to L.A., I didn’t have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.
Skinny Cow ice cream and candy – like dancing – brings a little bit of fun to your day.
I’ve always been a wriggler. I just dig dancing.
Dancing is like ditchdigging, it’s so strenuous. A laborer doesn’t work any harder.
Dancing’s part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.
I went to dance class as a girl because I didn’t like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.
When I was a teeny little girl, I was in dancing school, and I sang. We had to put a dance to a song, so I went to the 10-cent store one day and looked at all the sheet music. It was all laid out, and I picked ‘Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries.’
The Dancing Girls of Lahore was offered to dozens of British publishers and was turned down by everyone. It is still on offer in the U.K., but I’m not confident there will be any takers.
The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.
I had been making films for almost ten years, and the head men at RKO thought of me only in terms of musicals. I found no fault with that, except I just couldn’t stand being typed or pigeonholed as only a singing and dancing girl. I wanted to extend my range.
